John E. Martin is the Parliamentary Historian in the Parliamentary Library. He has published widely in political, social and economic history. He previously worked in the Historical Branch/History Group of the Department of Internal Affairs/Ministry for Culture and Heritage, and lectured at the University of Canterbury and Victoria University of Wellington.
Publications include
Honouring the Contract (Victoria University Press, 2010)
Parliament’s Library – 150 Years (Steele Roberts Publishing Limited, 2008)
The House: New Zealand’s House of Representatives (Dunmore Press, 2004)
Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand's Department of Labour (Canterbury University Press, 1996)
People, Politics and Power Stations: Electric Power Generation in New Zealand 1880–1998 (Bridget Williams Books, 1991)
The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Earner in Nineteenth-century New Zealand (Allen & Unwin/ Bridget Williams Books, 1990)
Tatau Tatau: One Big Union Altogether: the Shearers and the Early Years of the New Zealand Workers' Union (New Zealand Workers’ Union, 1987)
Feudalism to Capitalism (Humanities Press, 1983)