Workers in bondage : the origins and bases of unfree labour in Queensland 1824-1916 /

Workers in Bondage is primarily concerned with Queensland's Pacific Islander labour force, but it begins with the origins of servitude in Queensland during the convict era before separation from New South Wales in 1859. The book also deals with the reconstruction of the Queensland sugar industr...

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Main Author: Saunders, Kay, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2011
Series:UQ ePress Pacific studies series.
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245 1 0 |a Workers in bondage :  |b the origins and bases of unfree labour in Queensland 1824-1916 /  |c Kay Saunders. 
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Publisher's Note; 1. The original Gairloch Mill, Herbert River, early 1870.; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter I: ""Inescapable Exile""; 1. Adult Population of Northern Districts, March 1846; 2. Adult Population of Northern Districts, March 1851; Chapter II: A Decent Cargo; 2. The barquentine Sydney Belle at Bundaberg.; 3. Solomon Islanders bound for Queensland.; Chapter Ill: A Gentleman's Domain?; 4. Clearing scrub on Ingham's plantation, Herbert River 1874.; 3. Distribution of Melanesian Employment for 1868 
505 8 |a 4. Distribution of Melanesians in Queensland, 1871-915. Macknade Plantation, 1874.; 6. The Wailer Brothers, the original owners of Macknade, crossing the Herbert River in 1874.; 7. Northern separationists true motives revealed.; 5. Wages for White Workers, 1882; 8. Plantation Structure: Status and Authority; 9. The Dawn Muster at Hely's Mona estate, Halifax, 1899; 6. Ethnic Origins of Labour Force in Queensland Sugar Industry, 1888; Chapter IV: Life in the Barracks; 10. Plantation workers and overseer, Lower Herbert, early 1870's.; 11. Clearing scrub, Buderim, late 1890's. 
505 8 |a 12. Melanesians in the Cane fields, Buderim, late 1890's.13. Melanesian huts, Mackay 1880's.; Chapter V: Adjustments to Servitude; 7. Number of Recruits Taken from Selected Islands, 1904; 8. Percentage of Recruits Taken from New Hebrides, Solomons, Banks and Torres after 1890; 9. Census Reports on Chinese, Indians, Japanese and Other Asians Resident in Queensland; 10. Sexual Distribution of Melanesians in Queensland, 1871-1901; 14. Married Melanesian couples' cottages, Buderim, late 1890's.; 15. Studio portrait of a westernized Pacific Islander, turn of the century. 
505 8 |a 11. Marriage Amongst Melanesian Males in 1906 16. Worker lampoons the westernized Melanesian.; I 7. Melanesian women hoeing cane with ganger.; 18. Young Islander girl.; 19. Daily condition of Melanesian children in Queensland late 1880's.; 20. Solomon Islanders dancing in north Queensland.; 21. Propaganda from Queensland Kanaka Mission.; 22. Boomerang opposes further indenture.; Chapter VI: ""Troublesome Servants""; 23. Evangelical activity of the Queensland Kanaka Mission.; Chapter VII: The Realities of White Australia; 24. The Worker attributes blame for the 1894 Shearers' Strike 
505 8 |a 25. Figaro questions Sir Samuel Griffith's integrity on the black labour question.26. Uncertainty about the fate of black labour during the 1889 Royal Commission to enquire into the depression in the sugar industry.; 27. Boomerang ponders the recommendations of 1889 Royal Commission.; 28. Worker infers consequences from Griffith's volte face.; 29 . Cane farmer's family, early twentieth century; 30. Rural capitalism swimming along.; 31. The contentious issue of black labour in the Federation debate.; 32. The Bushman's Future.; 33. The future of black labour in the sugar industry. 
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