Snag Your Copy Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism Early New Zealand Anarchism Envisioned By Jared Davidson Distributed As Digital Format

excellent book can be enjoyed on many levels as an insight into New Zealand's anarchist past, as the story of the very human Philip Josephs whose life and philosophical journey took him from Latvia to Wellington and as a compelling social history.
Highly recommended. Sewing Freedom is the first indepth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the earlyth centurya time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counterculture.
Interweaving biography, cultural history, and an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels the anarchistcumbomber stereotype by piecing together the life of Philip Josephsa Latvianborn Jewish tailor, antimilitarist, and founder of the Wellington Freedom Group.
Anarchists like Josephs not only existed in the Workingmans Paradise that was New Zealand, but were a lively part of its labour movement and the class struggle that swept through the country, imparting uncredited influence and ideas.
Sewing Freedom places this neglected movement within the global anarchist upsurge, and unearths the colourful activities of New Zealands most radical advocates for social and economic change.
Includes illustrations by Icky from Justseeds and a foreword by Barry Pateman Kate Sharpley Library Archivist and Associate Editor at the Emma Goldman Papers.


“Davidson has produced much more than a soundly researched and very engaging biography, . . this is an excellent, wideranging contribution to our knowledge of the international and indeed transnational anarchist movement, and sweeps us along in a fascinating story that takes us from the pogroms in Russian Latvia, to the workingclass slums of Victorian Glasgow, to the early struggles of the nascent labour movement in New Zealand.
”Dr David Berry, author of A History of the French Anarchist Movement

“Many millions

of words have been written on New Zealand history.
The labour movement does not feature prominently in this vast corpus in fact, quite the contrary, And within this relatively sparse coverage, anarchism is almost invariably assigned at best a passing mention, We must be grateful for Davidsons determination to restore an anarchist voice to the history of the outermost reach of the British Empire.
”Dr Richard Hill, Professor of New Zealand Studies amp author of Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove

“A ground breaking tale of a rebel life, skillfully unearthed by Jared Davidson.
A must read. ”Lucien van der Walt, coauthor of Black Flame Beautifully produced
Well researched
Engaging

Anarchist histories are difficult things to write and Jared Davidson has done it :

An archivist by day and author by night, Jared Davidson is an award winning writer based in Wellington, New Zealand.
Through social biography and history from below, Jared explores the lives and struggles of working people on the margins from radicals of the early twentieth century to prison convicts of the nineteenth.
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