Unfree workers : insubordination and resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860 / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Michael Quinlan.
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish.; Quinlan, Michael.
2022
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Title
Unfree workers : insubordination and resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860 / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Michael Quinlan.
Author
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish.
ISBN
9789811675584 (electronic bk.)
9811675589 (electronic bk.)
9811675570
9789811675577
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7558-4
Publication Details
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-7558-4 doi
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HB501
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.994
Summary
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. Michael Quinlan is emeritus professor of industrial relations at UNSW, Australia, as well as holding posts at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and Middlesex, UK, University. He has researched and published extensively on the history and regulation of work (including occupational health and safety) and worker organisation. 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.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 27, 2022).
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Quinlan, Michael.
Series
Palgrave studies in economic history, 2662-6500
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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?.

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