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

Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (Auteur), Quinlan, Michael (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Résumé:XVI, 349 p. 23 illus., 4 illus. in color.
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Langue:anglais
Publié: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Édition:1st ed. 2022.
Collection:Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
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Accès en ligne:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7558-4
Format: Électronique Livre
Table des matières:
  • 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?.