| Record Number |
22420 |
| ISBN |
9789811675577 (hbk.) |
| 9811675570 (hbk.) |
| Location |
994.02 MAX |
| Author |
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish,(author). |
| Title |
Unfree workers : insubordination and resistance in convict australia, 1788-1860 / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart ; Michael Quinlan. |
| Published |
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022] |
| ©2022. |
| Collation |
xiv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. |
| Content types |
still image |
| text |
| cartographic image |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in economic history |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Note |
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? |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
Labor -- Australia -- History -- 19th century |
| Convict labor -- Australia -- History -- 19th century |
| Geographic Name |
Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century |
| Australia -- Economic conditions |
| Australia |
| Added Name |
Quinlan, Michael,1951-, (author). |
