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Author Nicholas, Steve.

Title Convict workers : reinterpreting Australia's past / edited by Stephen Nicholas
Published Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Description x, 246 pages ; 26 cm
regular print
Series Studies in Australian history
Studies in Australian history.
Contents 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
Subject Convict labor -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Convict labor -- Australia -- History.
Convict labor -- Australia.
Prisoners -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Prisoners -- Australia -- History.
Prisoners -- Australia.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History.
Penal colonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Penal colonies -- Great Britain -- History.
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593
United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056645
Author Nicholas, Steve.
Flinders University.
LC no. 88011990
ISBN 0521361265