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Author:   Hamish Maxwell-Stewart ,  Michael Quinlan
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.483kg
ISBN:  

9789811675607

ISBN 10:   9811675600
Pages:   349
Publication Date:   14 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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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Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a professor of heritage and digital history at the University of New England, Australia. He has researched and published extensively on the history of convict transportation including its connections with slavery and other unfree labour systems. Michael Quinlan is emeritus professor of industrial relations at UNSW, Australia, as well as holding posts at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and Middlesex University, UK. He has researched and published extensively on the history and regulation of work (including occupational health and safety) and worker organisation.

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