Labor Relations and Capitalist Relations in Australia and the International Context
Australia was founded as a penal colony by Great Britain in 1788. The British Capitalistshad only recently lost access to the American colonies and the ferment in France was a yearaway.The British proletariat were hunted for their labor in the industrial centers and chasedfrom their homelands by enclosures and poverty. The working classes were persecuted underthe notorious summary offences and vagrancy acts. The ruling classes of Britain took toimprisoning surplus labor from the industrial centers. These convicts were transported asunpaid labor for its new colony.They were brutally exploited.In his History of the Miners Federation Edgar Ross cites an early document recordingthe conditions of convict miners at Newcastle kept underground all week and only allowedout to bathe in the Sea one day a week beaten mercilessly and fed on rations each miner wasexpected to cut and wheel in barrows to the pit bottom 2-3 tonnes of coal a day……Workinghours were virtually unlimited, and the convicts toiled literally under the lash.pgsll-13.
David Matters
国际会议
日本岛根
英文
145-152
2007-10-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）