Labour and industry in Australia : from the first settlement in 1788 to the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901
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Labour and industry in Australia : from the first settlement in 1788 to the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901
(Cambridge library collection, . History)
Cambridge University Press, 2011
- v. 1 : pbk
- v. 2 : pbk
- v. 3 : pbk
- v. 4 : pbk
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Oxford University Press, 1918
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108030670
Description
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. From the Foundation of Settlement to the Crossing of the Mountains: 1. Introduction to the first period
- 2. The assignment system
- 3. Musters
- 4. Wages and working hours
- 5. The currency
- 6. Land policy
- 7. The genesis of the wool industry in Australia
- 8. The industries of the period
- 9. Trade and prices
- Part II. From the Crossing of the Mountains to the Abolition of the Assignment System: 1. Introduction to the second period
- 2. Convict labour. Assignment
- 3. Free labour
- 4. Immigration
- 5. The occupation of land
- 6. Agricultural and pastoral pursuits
- 7. The currency
- 8. Trade and prices
- Part III. From the Abolition of the Assignment System to the Discovery of Gold: 1. Introduction to the third period
- 2. Transportation
- 3. Immigration
- 4. Land legislation in New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia
- 5. Land legislation and settlement in South Australia, and the Wakefield theory of colonization
- 6. Labour and wages
- 7. Prices
- 8. Financial crisis of 1841, 1842, and 1843
- 9. Industries
- Part IV. From the Discovery of Gold to the Introduction of Free Selection of Land before Survey: 1. Introduction to the fourth period
- 2. The end of the convict system
- 3. The discovery of gold in Australia.
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v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108030687
Description
Table of Contents
- Part IV continued: 4. Immigration
- 5. Land legislation and settlement
- 6. Industries
- 7. Wages and conditions of labour
- 8. Prices
- 9. The railway beginnings of Australia
- 10. Currency, banking, and exchange
- Part V. From the Introduction of Free Selection before Survey to the Establishment of Protection in Victoria, and the Beginning of a Vigorous Policy of Public Works in all the Colonies: 1. Introduction to the fifth period
- 2. Immigration
- 3. Recrudescence of bushranging
- 4. Land legislation and settlement
- 5. Labour and wages
- 6. The introduction of coloured labour into Queensland
- 7. Prices
- 8. Tariff changes and the establishment of protection in Victoria
- 9. Intercolonial tariff relations
- 10. The crisis in Queensland during 1866.
- Volume
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v. 3 : pbk ISBN 9781108030694
Description
Table of Contents
- Part V continued: 11. Trade and industry
- 12. Currency and banking
- 13. Railway extension and public works policy
- Part VI. From the Year 1873 to the Financial Crisis of 1893: 1. Introduction to the sixth period
- 2. Immigration
- 3. The exclusion of the Chinese
- 4. Land and settlement
- 5. A vigorous policy of public works
- 6. Labour and wages
- 7. The maritime strike of 1890
- 8. Prices
- 9. The financial developments of the period and the crisis of 1893.
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v. 4 : pbk ISBN 9781108030700
Description
Table of Contents
- Part VI continued: 10. Trade and finance in South Australia
- 11. Trade and finance in Western Australia and Tasmania
- 12. The formation of a political Labour Party in Australia
- Part VII. From the Financial Crisis of 1893 to the Establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901: 1. Introduction to the seventh period
- 2. Land legislation and settlement
- 3. Immigration
- 4. Labour and wages
- 5. Factory and shop legislation and the settlement of industrial disputes
- 6. Prices
- 7. Trade and banking after the crisis
- 8. The Labour Party: continuation of its history
- 9. White Australia
- 10. Events leading up to the Federation of Australia
- Index.
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