Workers in bondage : the origins and bases of unfree labour in Queensland, 1824-1916 / Kay Saunders
- Bib ID:
- 112850
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Saunders, Kay, 1947-
- Description:
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- St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, c1982
- xx, 213 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 070221583X
- Series:
- University of Queensland Press scholars' library.
- Summary:
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Historical study of convict, Melanesian, Polynesian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese and other indentured labourers in Queensland, especially in the sugar industry; includes information on Aboriginal and Islander labour from the early contact period onwards; draws on a wide range of documentary and contemporary sources.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- For tertiary students.
- Bibliography: p. 189-[204].
- Subject:
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- Plantations. Indentured personnel. Queensland, 1824-1916
- Contract labor -- Queensland -- History
- Employment - Conditions - Slavery and indentured labour
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Sugar
- Colonisation
- Settlement and contacts - Chinese
- Employment - Labour market
- Indigenous peoples - Pacific
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Queensland -- Social conditions
- Queensland (Qld)
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1982
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