Convict workers: reinterpreting Australia's past/ edited by Stephen Nicholas

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Unique IDLIB-00014124Date1st January 2007Date qualifieryear onlyDescriptionDescription: A unique interpretation of Australias past based on an exhaustive and detailed analysis of convict records.

Part I. Revising The Past: 1. Unshackling the past/ Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold

2. Full circle? Contemporary views on transportation/ David Meredith

3. Transportation as global migration/ Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold

Part II. The Workers: 4. Convicts as migrants/ Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold

5. Convicts as workers/ Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold

6. Female convicts/ Deborah Oxley

7. A labour aristocracy in chains/ Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold

Part III. The System: 8. The convict labour market/ Stephen Nicholas

9. Public employment and assignment to private masters, 1788-1821/ Barrie Dyster

10. The organisation of public work/ Stephen Nicholas

11. Convict labour and the Australian agricultural company/ John Perkins

12. The care and feeding of convicts/ Stephen Nicholas

13. A new past/ Stephen Nicholas

Public Note: Originally published: 1988LanguageEnglish (eng)IllustrationsBlack and white illustrationsPublisherCambridge University PressPlace of publicationCambridge

Format

FormatPublication - Book

Numbering & Quantity

Number of pages246

Characteristics

Dimensions (free text)25 cm

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Subject tagsSlaveryGreat BritainHistoryPenal coloniesEconomic development19th centuryConvict labour

Identification

Dewey decimal numberSRC 994.02 CONVISBN/ISSN9780521035989
0521035988Source system IDR0000230082Alternative ID30002037008752

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Convict workers: reinterpreting Australia's past/ edited by Stephen Nicholas