Titlebook: Unfree Workers; Insubordination and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart,Michael Quinlan Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), unde

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Unfree Workers978-981-16-7558-4Series ISSN 2662-6497 Series E-ISSN 2662-6500

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Approach, Sources and Methodsiving prior to 1850 were transported to these colonies a handful of skilled prisoners were sent to King George Sound in Western Australia in 1826 on the promise of indulgences. Despite the small size of this outpost, convicts colluded in an attempt to set work norms—threatening those who started the

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Convict Eastern Australia: Labour Bureaucracy or Police State?end of the Napoleonic Wars. The introduction of new laws borrowed from the British Caribbean rendered any attempt by convicts to protest or speak out punishable by flogging, solitary confinement and hard labour. The main aim of these changes was to ensure that convict labour would generate profits f

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Shipboard Mutiniesir own right, organised so as to prepare prisoners for the experience of work in the penal colonies. This chapter looks at the many attempts by convicts to seize vessels during the passage to Australia. It also evaluates the considerable obstacles that stood in the path of such mutinous combinations

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Go-Slows, Strikes and Effort Bargainingows or related forms of output restriction as well temporary withdrawals of labour or refusing work. Convicts struck on literally thousands of occasions and go-slows were particularly widespread, especially in government gangs and on large rural estates. This activity prefigured more formalised effo

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Absenteeism, Absconding and Escapeaditional holidays. They also ran away in impressive numbers. Collective absconding was particularly common amongst road gangs and women in female factories. Increases in the rate of absconding often occurred in the wake of other protests—a demonstration of the ways in which different forms of actio

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