Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Hetherington, Penelope.

Title Settlers, servants & slaves : Aboriginal and European children in nineteenth-century Western Australia / Penelope Hetherington
Published Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2002

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 WATERFT BUSINESS  331.34699915 Het/Ssa  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 246 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction: Understanding childhood in nineteenth-century Western Australia -- Pt. I. European children. Ch. 1. Counting the European population. Ch. 2. Family and child labour. Ch. 3. Parsimony and discrimination in education. Ch. 4. Paupers, bastards, delinquents and larrikins -- Pt. II. Aboriginal children. Ch. 5. Estimating the Aboriginal population. Ch. 6. Institutions for Aboriginal children in the south. Ch. 7. Family and child labour in the pastoral industry. Ch. 8. Child labour in the pearling industry. Ch. 9. Rehearsing the future: 'Half-castes' and reserves -- Conclusion: Holding a work force in bondage
Summary Documents the exploitation of both Aboriginal and European children by the settler elite of nineteenth century Western Australia
Analysis Aboriginal children
Child labour
Western Australia
Orphans
Social conditions
Participation in education
History, 1801-1900
Statistics
Australian Aboriginal studies (Western Australia) Modern history (c 1788-1914)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 230-240
Subject Families, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Employment -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History.
Child labor -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Children -- Employment -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Employment -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Child labor -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Government relations.
LC no. 2002491869
ISBN 1876268735 :
Other Titles Settlers, servants & slaves