Convict Workers
Subtitle: Reinterpreting Australia's Past (Studies in Australian History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 25, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521361262
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history: c 1750 to c 1900; History: American; Penology; Sociology; History: World; Australia; Australia & New Zealand - General; Convict labor--Australia--History--19th century; History / Australia & Oceania; 19th century; Convict labor; Great Britain; History; Penal colonies
First sentence: During the first quarter of a century of white settlement in Australia, the economy and society was the creation of convict workers transported from Britain and Ireland.