List of Queensland Plantations and Mills 1862-1906 -- 1. The Rise of Plantation Production, 1862-1889. Cane Sugar and Queensland. The Incipient Phase 1862-1867. The First Growth Period 1868-1878. The Speculative Phase 1879-1889. Expansion 1879-1884. Depression 1885-1889 -- 2. The Economic and Political Foundations of the Central Milling System. The Efficiency of Plantation Production. Rising Labour Costs. Planter Responses to Rising Labour Costs. Other Cost Constraints. Cane Farmers and the Central Milling System -- 3. Reconstruction and the Abolition of the Labour Trade 1890-1906. Reconstruction 1890-1906. Abolition. Economic Factors. Political Factors -- 4. The Material Life of Pacific Island Labour in the Queensland Sugar Industry. Death and Disease. Accommodation. Diet. Clothing. Hours. Medical Care and Attention. Public Hospitals. Plantation Hospitals. Pacific Islander Hospitals. The Economics of Death -- 5. The Plantation. Spatial and Social Features. The Chain of Command. Discipline and Control. Conclusion -- 6. The State and the Control of Pacific Islanders in Queensland. The Masters and Servants Act. The Pacific Island Labour Inspectors. Other Aspects of State Intervention -- 7. Social Control. Deferred Pay and the Trade Box System. Education and Religion. Recreational Activities. Alcohol and Drugs. Sex. Gambling. Feasting, Singing, Dancing and Games -- 8. Worker Resistance. Ethnicity. Violence, Riots and Serious Crime. Industrial Resistance. Suicide. The Labour Market. Resistance to Repatriation -- 9. Conclusion
Analysis
Queensland
Sugar Production History
Notes
"This book ... began as a D.Phil. thesis ... at the University of Oxford in 1979"--Pref
Bibliography
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