维护合同:19世纪宽湾和伯内特地区契约劳工的经验

IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 Arts and Humanities Labour History Pub Date : 2017-11-01 DOI:10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.113.0103
Margaret Slocomb
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在19世纪40年代末田园繁荣的风口浪尖上,新南威尔士州北部地区的棚户区居民梦想着一个可靠的牧羊人,他每年可以花10英镑买到。在偏远的伯内特和宽湾地区,这一目标是通过进口所谓的亚洲劳工来实现的,首先是从孟加拉,然后是从中国。19世纪60年代,成千上万的南海岛民加入了这些苦力队伍,他们主要在沿海的甘蔗种植园工作,但也在内陆的牧场上担任牧羊人。每一项针对契约有色人种劳工的实验都被白人雇主视为失败。从严格的经济角度来看,这一判断显然是错误的。另一方面,正如本文所讨论的,移民工人对合同权利的自信违背了他们的主人对廉价和温顺劳动力的期望。
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Preserving the Contract: The Experience of Indentured Labourers in the Wide Bay and Burnett Districts in the Nineteenth Century
On the cusp of the pastoral boom of the late 1840s, squatters in the Northern Districts of New South Wales dreamed of the reliable shepherd who could be bought for ten pounds per annum. In the remote Burnett and Wide Bay districts, this aim was realised by the importation of so-called Asiatic labourers, first from Bengal and then from China. In the 1860s, thousands of South Sea Islanders joined these coolie ranks, labouring mostly on the coastal sugar plantations, but also as shepherds on the pastoral runs in the hinterland. Each of these experiments with indentured coloured labourers was deemed a failure by the white employers. In strictly economic terms, this judgement was patently false. On the other hand, as this paper discusses, the assertiveness of the immigrant workers for contractual rights defied their masters' expectations of a cheap and docile labour force.
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