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Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry: Queensland from White Settlement to the Present Hardcover - 1994

by Dawn May


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Cattle has been big business in Australia for well over a century and earns substantial export dollars. Yet the contribution that Aboriginal people have made to this key sector of the Australian economy has not been widely recognised. This book uncovers the central role of Aboriginal labour in the Queensland cattle industry. It looks at a broad period, from Aboriginal land use at the time of first contact, resistance to white settlers and rapid absorption of Aboriginal people into the pastoral economy. The book also considers the impact of the introduction of equal pay rates in the 1970s and land management in the 1990s. Dawn May shows that the use of Aboriginal labour was a complex process involving a high degree of state intervention. Her book is an important economic and social history of the cattle industry in Queensland, but the pressing issue of native title makes the book highly relevant throughout post-Mabo Australia.

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  • Title Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry: Queensland from White Settlement to the Present
  • Author Dawn May
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 254
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1994
  • ISBN 9780521465069 / 0521465060
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.23 x 0.8 in (23.67 x 15.82 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Aboriginal Australians - Australia -, Aboriginal Australians - Australia -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94013644
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.699
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii, 242pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw ills, map. Pictorial card. SIGNED with personalised inscription by author on half-title page. Near new. Looks at conflict between Aborigines and white settlers on first contact, Aborigines being absorbed into the pastoral economy (the extent that by 1886 they represented about half of the total workforce in the industry), and government complicity in ensuring the availablity of Aboriginal labour at mush lower rates than their white counterparts.. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.
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West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. DJ has a few small tears, edge wear, creases, scratches, rubbed corners/spine, very slightly chipped. Boards have edge wear, rubbed corners/spine. No writing..
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