In a radical new interpretation of Australia's past, based on exhaustive and detailed analysis of recORD this book shows that the convicts sent to Australia were not professional criminals, but ORD work skills, essential to the forging of a new economy and society. By illuminating the contribution of the convict workers to Australia's economic and social development, a fresh historical understanding of Australia's early history emerges.
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Convict Workers offers an interesting interpretation of Australia's convict past. The convicts sent to Australia were not professional criminals, but ordinary British and Irish men and women. They brought with them a diverse range of useful work skills, essential to the forging of a new economy and society.
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Every Aussie knows that the first European settlers were involuntary. But in our history books, convicts are often a nameless bunch. What was life really like for them? The contributors to this book attempt to reach back into musty archives and reconstruct a bicentennial past.Various aspects of convict life are treated. Including how female convicts fared in a society with far more men than women. For most convicts, conditions were often hard, especially in the early years, when starvation was a real threat. However, in total, it was still better to be a convict than an African slave brought to the Americas. Convicts who served their sentences were freed and often prospered.
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During the first quarter of a century of white settlement in Australia, the economy and society was the creation of convict workers transported from Britain and Ireland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
convict sample, convict inflow, convict indents, intercounty mobility, outdoor gangs, urban convicts, convict occupations, convict protest, convict ration, convict migrants, convict skills, skilled convicts, convict arrivals, colonial labour market, convict workers, convict workforce, convict society, pain incentives, convict years, transported workers, convict system, labour aristocrats, assigned convicts, incentive attributes, female convicts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, Select Committee, United Kingdom, Port Stephens, Van Diemen's Land, Australian Agricultural Company, Bigge Report, United States, Straits Settlements, New Caledonia, Secondary Punishments, Great Britain, Historical Studies, Kentish London, Parliamentary Paper, Superintendent's Report, James Macarthur, Molesworth Committee, Botany Bay, John Macarthur, Mitchell Library, Commissioner Bigge, Female Factory, John Hirst, North America New!
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convict sample, convict inflow, convict indents, intercounty mobility, outdoor gangs, urban convicts, convict occupations, convict protest, convict ration, convict migrants, convict skills, skilled convicts, convict arrivals, colonial labour market, convict workers, convict workforce, convict society, pain incentives, convict years, transported workers, convict system, labour aristocrats, assigned convicts, incentive attributes, female convicts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, Select Committee, United Kingdom, Port Stephens, Van Diemen's Land, Australian Agricultural Company, Bigge Report, United States, Straits Settlements, New Caledonia, Secondary Punishments, Great Britain, Historical Studies, Kentish London, Parliamentary Paper, Superintendent's Report, James Macarthur, Molesworth Committee, Botany Bay, John Macarthur, Mitchell Library, Commissioner Bigge, Female Factory, John Hirst, North America New!
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- New System of Slavery by Hugh Tinker on 10 pages
- Convicts and the Colonies by A. G. L. Shaw on 10 pages
- The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes on 9 pages
- South Wales (Cycle Tours) by Philips on 6 pages
- Penal Servitude in Early Modern Spain by Ruth Pike on 5 pages
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