Aboriginal Workers (Special Issue of Labour History #69)

Ann McGrath

ISBN 10: 0909944040 / ISBN 13: 9780909944049

Published by Liverpool University Press, 2020

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Inscribed by Ann McGrath to noted scholar Philip D. Morgan on half title page. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.* From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aboriginal Workers (Special Issue of Labour History #69)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0909944040
• ISBN 13: 9780909944049
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Oceania, Australia and Polynesia

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Synopsis

Australia’s national history has rarely allowed space for the history of Aboriginal work. This void enabled the growth of conflicting racist stereotypes of Aborigines as either lazy or slave-drudges. Historical research tells us otherwise, with Aborigines demonstrably efficient workers in colonial Australia. Throughout Australia’s history, they worked as domestics, pastoral and sexual workers, and in entertainment, sports and the arts. Aboriginal Workers surveys both the historical myths and the realities. It explores contested white representations of Aboriginal workers and presents an Australia-wide survey with a chronology sweeping across the full post-contact period, especially the less researched twentieth century. As well as providing valuable new material, Aboriginal Workers offers fresh insights, especially into the complex intersections of gender, race and labour. Significantly, this collection includes the perspectives of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal historians and workers. This volume has been updated with a new introduction for 2020.

About the Authors

Ann McGrath is an Associate Professor in the School of History at the University of NSW where she is also Director of the Centre for Community History. She has published extensively on the history of Australian colonialism. 'Born in the Cattle': Aborigines in Cattle Country (Allen & Unwin 1987) won the inaugural W.K. Hancock Prize while her co-authored Creating a Nation (McPhee Gribble/Penguin 1994) won the 1994 Human Rights Award for non-fiction. Her most recent book is an edited general history, Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines under the British Crown (Allen & Unwin 1995). Ann worked on numerous Aboriginal land claims in the Northern Territory and ran the National History Project of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Custody. She was President of the Interim Management Committee of the History Council of NSW.

Kay Saunders is a Reader in History at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include race relations, war and society and gender relations. Her most recent books include Australia's Frontline (1992); War on the Home front (1993) and Gender Relations in Australia. She is currently undertaking a study of masculinity in Australia and editing a book on internment in the twentieth century with Roger Daniels.

Jackie Huggins has a BA from the University of Queensland and an Honours degree in Women's Studies and History as well as a Diploma of Education from Flinders University. Formerly a public servant, she is now a freelance historian and writer. In 1994 she wrote the biography of her mother, entitled Aunty Rita, and is currently editing a volume of Aboriginal women's writing.