Convict Workers
Reinterpreting Australia's Past
ate 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 likelih…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-03598-9
- EAN: 9780521035989
- Produktnummer: 2850187
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B17.0 cm x D1.4 cm 455 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 455
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