Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past
by Edited by Stephen NicholasEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-05-31
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
In a radical new interpretation of Australia's past, based on exhaustive and detailed analysis of recORD this book shows that the convicts sent to Australia were not professional criminals, but ORD work skills, essential to the forging of a new economy and society. By illuminating the contribution of the convict workers to Australia's economic and social development, a fresh historical understanding of Australia's early history emerges.
Table of Contents
| List of tables and figures | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Revising The Past | |
| Unshackling the past | |
| Full circle? contemporary views on transportation | |
| Transportation as global migration | |
| The Workers | |
| Convicts as migrants | |
| Convicts as workers | |
| Female convicts Deborah Oxley | |
| A labour aristocracy in chains | |
| The System | |
| The convict labour market | |
| Public employment and assignment to private masters, 1788-1821 | |
| The organisation of public work | |
| Convict labour and the Australian agricultural company | |
| The care and feeding of convicts | |
| A new past | |
| Statistical appendix | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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