Unfree Workers

Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860

AvHamish Maxwell-Stewart,Michael Quinlan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia’s foundational story. It is a book that will appeal to an international audience, as well as the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who can trace descent from convicts. It will enable the latter to make sense of the experience of their ancestors, equipping them with the necessary tools to understand convict and court records. It will also provide a valuable undergraduate and postgraduate teaching tool and reference for those studying unfree labour and worker history, social history, colonization and global migration in a digital age.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt:588 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Economic History
Antal sidor:349
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811675577

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Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a professor of heritage and digital history at the University of New England, Australia. He has researched and published extensively on the history of convict transportation including its connections with slavery and other unfree labour systems.Michael Quinlan is emeritus professor of industrial relations at UNSW, Australia, as well as holding posts at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and Middlesex University, UK. He has researched and published extensively on the history and regulation of work (including occupational health and safety) and worker organisation.

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“Unfree Workers draws out the implications of recent convict historiography, built on the foundations of the influential project to understand convicts as workers. … this is a significant intervention in convict studies with wider implications. Unfree Workers connects convict Australia to a bigger story of imperial capitalism and the exploitation of land and labour. The unique richness of the convict archive made this book possible … .” (Matthew Allen, The Great Circle, Vol. 46 (2), 2024)

Innehållsförteckning

Section 1: Incarceration—Convicts, unfree labour and colonial capitalism.- Chapter 1: Unfree labour, Dissent, Convict-transportation and the building of colonial capital.- Chapter 2: Approaches, Sources and Methods.- Chapter 3: Convict Eastern Australia: Labour Bureaucracy or Police State?.- Chapter 4: Battling the Bench.- Section 2: Excarceration—Patterns of resistance and collective action.- Chapter 5: Shipboard mutinies.- Chapter 6: Issuing Demands, Appeals and Threats.- Chapter 7: Go-slows, Strikes and Effort Bargaining.- Chapter 8: Absenteeism, Absconding and Escape.- Chapter 9: Sabotage, Assault and Theft.- Chapter 10: Riots, Bushranging and Revolt.- Chapter 11: Nothing to lose but their chains?.