Part I. Revising The Past: 1. Unshackling the past / Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold -- 2. Full circle? contemporary views on transportation / David Meredith -- 3. Transportation as global migration / Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold -- Part II. The Workers: 4. Convicts as migrants / Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold -- 5. Convicts as workers / Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold -- 6. Female convicts /Deborah Oxley -- 7. A labour aristocracy in chains / Stephen Nicholas and Peter R. Shergold -- Part III. The System: 8. The convict labour market / Stephen Nicholas -- 9. Public employment and assignment to private masters, 1788-1821 / Barrie Dyster -- 10. The organisation of public work / Stephen Nicholas -- 11. Convict labour and the Australian agricultural company / John Perkins -- 12. The care and feeding of convicts / Stephen Nicholas -- 13. A new past / Stephen Nicholas
Summary
This work offers a new interpretation of Australia's convict past. It is based on a detailed analysis of records of 20,000 male and female convicts - one in three of those transported to New South Wales between 1817 and 1840
Analysis
Australia British criminals Social conditions, 1788-1890
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index