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- Title
ABORIGINAL WORKERS IN THE AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY, 1824-1857.
- Authors
Hannah, Mark
- Abstract
Documents failed attempts by an early-19th-century pastoral enterprise in Australia to implement a British factory model of labor relations and traces the emergence of a distinctively Australian work culture that incorporated Aboriginal labor. Completely contrary to previous work, which has variously stressed the destructive impact of pastoral capital, Aboriginal resistance to colonization, and colonizer-indigene "accommodation," there was an accord between work rhythms in subsistence economies and the attributes required of pastoral workers in the early colonial period. A detailed analysis of recruitment, organization, productivity, and remuneration shows that Aboriginal engagement with pastoral capital was purposefully designed to maintain contact with the country and that Aboriginal workers were the most productive employees of the Australian Agricultural Company.
- Publication
Labour History, 2002, Issue 82, p17
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/27516839