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Convict Workers - Reinterpreting Australia's Past (Paperback)
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Convict Workers - Reinterpreting Australia's Past (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Australian History
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State and private employers in New South Wales recognised the
convicts' previous occupations, and employed a large proportion of
them in the same occupations they had held at home. The women
convicts - often classified as prostitutes - in fact brought a
range of occupational skills equally as important for the economic
development of Australia as those of the male convicts. Once
settled in Australia, the convicts consumed a diet, and experienced
housing, superior to that received by free men and women at home.
The organisation of their work was not very different from that in
Britain and Ireland and, while cruel treatment did exist, the
likelihood of numerous floggings during their term of sentence is
shown to be a myth. Convict workers is a study in comparative
history, noting the resemblances and the contrasts with indentured
labour, slavery and punitive communities elsewhere. By illuminating
the contribution of the convict workers to Australia's economic and
social development.
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