Unfree Workers Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (Author), Quinlan, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XVI, 349 p. 23 illus., 4 illus. in color. text
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
Subjects:	Economic history. Labor economics. Population > Economic aspects. History. Economic History. Labor and Population Economics.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7558-4
Format:	Electronic eBook

Table of 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?.

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