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“Blame the System, Not the Victim!†Organizing the Unemployed in New Zealand, 1983–1992

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The restructuring of capital and the transformation of the workforce in the late twentieth century has produced a newly-shaped working class; one that encompasses those in insecure work and unemployed workers. With this repositioning has come new political organizations of unemployed workers, of which Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa, the national New Zealand organization for unemployed workers, is an example. This organization of unemployed was not only significant for its existence in the face of poverty, status disintegration, and a perceived sense of social worthlessness, but also for the tripartite ideology its members employed. Unemployed workers in New Zealand combined the identity politics of race and gender with a class-based critique of society to demand “the right to work and a living wage for all.â€

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  • Locke, Cybèle, 2007. "“Blame the System, Not the Victim!†Organizing the Unemployed in New Zealand, 1983–1992," International Labor and Working-Class History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 71(1), pages 162-184, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ilawch:v:71:y:2007:i:01:p:162-184_00
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