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Nothing to Lose but Your Chains

In: Unfree Workers

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  • Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

    (University of New England)

  • Michael Quinlan

    (UNSW Sydney)

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This chapter places the role of unfree workers in Australia’s economic development and their resistance to labour exploitation in wider perspective. It includes an assessment of the scale of protest actions that followed the changes made to the management of convict labour in the early 1820s. Comparisons are also made with the mobilisation of free workers (both informal and through unions) during the period to the creation of the Australian Commonwealth in 1901. It demonstrates that the resistance mounted by convict workers remained unmatched in Australian history until the titanic strikes of the early 1890s. The chapter highlights how convict resistance secured a number of important victories and shaped later industrial struggles. It also demonstrates how ex-convicts were integral to building unions and labour movement developments after 1850.

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  • Hamish Maxwell-Stewart & Michael Quinlan, 2022. "Nothing to Lose but Your Chains," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Unfree Workers, chapter 0, pages 287-316, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-981-16-7558-4_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7558-4_11
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