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Unfree workers : insubordination and resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860 / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Michael Quinlan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish.
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in economic history 2662-6500
- Palgrave Studies in economic history, 2662-6500
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Australia.
- Capitalism.
- Economic conditions.
- History.
- Australia--History--1788-1851.
- Australia.
- Australia--Economic conditions--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 27, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9789811675584
- 9811675589
- Publisher Number:
- 99990026168
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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