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9781869404536

Shear Hard Work

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  • ISBN13:

    9781869404536

  • ISBN10:

    186940453X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-04-01
  • Publisher: Auckland University Press

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Summary

Telling the story of shearers from the 1860s to the present day, this collection brings to life the world of the shearing shed for the first time. Shearers have played a key role in New Zealand life, and this book chronicles key changes in the businessfrom the mechanization of shearing to the expansion of the shearing season and the shrinking of the New Zealand flock. It explores the changing culture of shearingthe way Maori whanau turned themselves into successful shearing gangs, how women entered the sheds as wool handlers and wound up as world-record shearers, and how Ivan and Godfrey Bowen professionalized the business. It also looks at those things that persisted10-hour days, mutton chops for breakfast, and the glory of being the "ringer" who shore the most sheep in the day. Delving into the heart of rural New Zealand, this compilation illuminates larger themes in New Zealand historyinteractions between Maori and Pakeha, rural and urban society, change and traditionand introduces some extraordinary New Zealanders who work as shearers today.

Author Biography

Hazel Riseborough is a historian and the author of Days of Darkness: Taranaki, 1878–1884 and Ngamatea: The Land and the People.

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