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  • Do employer groups help with dairy farm employment? Why hasn’t the idea ‘caught-on’? 
    Tipples, Rupert S.; Bewsell, Denise T. (Labour, Employment and Work Conference, 2010-12-01)
    Dairy employer groups began to appear about 2000 in response to employment difficulties as the dairy farm labour market encountered low unemployment. Edkins and Tipples (2002) reported to LEW 10 on the development of ...
  • The factors which have resulted in migrant workers being 'essential' workers on New Zealand dairy farms 
    Tipples, Rupert S.; Trafford, Suzanne; Callister, P. (Labour, Employment and Work Conference, 2010-12)
    Over the past decade, the dairy industry has grown in land area, number of cows, milk production and dairy exports to the point where it is New Zealand’s premier exporter. Growth has been accompanied by significant structural ...
  • From earth's last islands: The global origins of Green politics 
    Dann Christine, R. (Lincoln University, 1999)
    Since World War Two the world has undergone a profound economic and political transformation, from an international economy and internationalist politics to a global economy and globalist politics. The Bretton Woods ...
  • A history of apprenticeship in New Zealand 
    Murray Nicky (Lincoln University, 2001)
    This Master's thesis is a history of apprenticeship in New Zealand. Apprenticeship has traditionally been the main route for entry into the skilled trades. At one level apprenticeship is a way of training people to do a ...
  • The influence of natural resource endowments on the economics of high country pastoral farming 
    Bussieres, Marie (Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1984)
    The study examines how high country pastoral enterprises might have their economic efficiency affected by differences in their land resources. Its approach is to make use of landform-soil classification of high country ...
  • Investment analysis of beef syndicates 
    Kerse, J. C. (Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1972)
    Syndication and co-operation in some areas of agriculture are now quite common. At the farm level, for example, significant advantages may accrue from group ownership of machinery, labour and livestock. Hagen (1971) ...
  • Leisure: a new occupation 
    Thurlow, Alan Raymond (University of Canterbury, 1982)
    Unemployment appears to be a permanent feature of Western society including New Zealand. It is unlikely that economic progress will allow for full employment in New Zealand. Technological progress also likely to reduce ...
  • Regional skill ecosystems to assist young people making education employment linkages in transition from school to work 
    Dalziel, Paul C. (Sage Journals, 2015-02)
    A feature of regional development in New Zealand over the last two decades has been ongoing skill shortages reported by employers at the same time as unemployment has been relatively high. This paper addresses that issue ...
  • The social impacts of horticultural development in Canterbury 
    Blake, Hilary (Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1984)
    This is a study of the social aspects of agricultural land use change, in particular, the intensification of pastoral and arable land through the development of irrigation and field-scale horticultural production systems ...

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