Bert Roth Award for Labour History

The Bert Roth Award for Labour History, named for the late historian Bert Roth, is presented annually by the Labour History Project to the work that best depicts the history of work and resistance in New Zealand. It was created in May 2013 in recognition of Roth's contribution to labour movement archives and history.

Recipients

2014: Rebecca Macfie, Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and why 29 Men died 2015: Nicholas Hoare Imperial Dissenters: Anti-Colonial Voices in New Zealand, 1883-1945, MA, Victoria University of Wellington2016: Melissa Williams, Pangaru in the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua 2017: Poi E: The Story of our Song, directed by Tearepa Kahi2018: Helen McNeil, A Striking Truth. Runner-up: Renée, These Two Hands: a memoir 2019: David Haines and Jonathan West, "Crew Cultures in the Tasman World" in Francis Steele, ed., New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives. Runner-up: Caren Wilton, My Body My Business: NZ Sex Workers in an Era of Change 2020: Jared Davidson, Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920. Runner-up: Helen Kelly - Together, directed by Tony Sutorius2021: Noel O’Hare, Tooth and Veil: The Life and Times of the New Zealand Dental Nurse. Runner-up: Mark Derby, Rock College: An Unofficial history of Mt Eden Prison 2022: Julia Laite, The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice. Runner-up: Rebecca Macfie, Helen Kelly: Her Life 2023: Joint winners: Cybele Locke, Comrade: Bill Andersen – A Communist, Working-Class Life and Gay Simpkin and Marie Russell, Women Will Rise! Recalling the Working Women’s Charter 2024: Jared Davidson, Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand. Runner-up: Toby Boraman, 'Nullifying Austerity: Stoppages Against the Nil General Wage Order', New Zealand Journal of History 57:2