We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
MUTINY AT DELORAINE: GANGING AND CONVICT RESISTANCE IN 1840S VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
- Authors
Dunning, Tom; Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish
- Abstract
An incident of alleged animal maiming occurred in October 1845 in Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania). This article investigates both why and how it happened and the conflicting meanings that various contemporaries gave to this occurrence. The explanation for the event lies in the nature of ganged labor employed at Deloraine and the complex relationships that existed in 1845 between this ganged labor and the convict administration. The most available representations of the situation are those of middle-class moralists. More difficult to ascertain is the oppositional significance attributed to this event by the convicts themselves as they attempted to resist both the practices of the convict administration and the moral justifications for these practices.
- Publication
Labour History, 2002, Issue 82, p35
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/27516840