Settlers, servants and slaves : Aboriginal and European children in nineteenth-century Western Australia / Penelope Hetherington
- Bib ID:
- 2059018
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hetherington, Penelope
- Description:
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- Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2002
- ix, 246 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1876268735 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Documents the exploitation of both Aboriginal and European children by the settler elite of nineteenth century Western Australia.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Understanding childhood in nineteenth-century Western Australia
- Pt. I. European children. Ch. 1. Counting the European population. Ch. 2. Family and child labour. Ch. 3. Parsimony and discrimination in education. Ch. 4. Paupers, bastards, delinquents and larrikins
- Pt. II. Aboriginal children. Ch. 5. Estimating the Aboriginal population. Ch. 6. Institutions for Aboriginal children in the south. Ch. 7. Family and child labour in the pastoral industry. Ch. 8. Child labour in the pearling industry. Ch. 9. Rehearsing the future: 'Half-castes' and reserves
- Conclusion: Holding a work force in bondage.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography.
- Subject:
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- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Employment -- Western Australia
- Child labor -- Western Australia
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Western Australia
- Economic sectors - Pearling
- Race relations - Racial discrimination - Employment
- Employment - Conditions - Slavery and indentured labour
- Child welfare
- Education
- Employment - Conditions - Child labour
- Child welfare - Children's homes
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Settlement and contacts - Government settlements, reserves
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Western Australia (WA)
- Also Titled:
- Settlers, servants & slaves
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2002
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