Shipboard Mutinies

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart () and Michael Quinlan ()
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Hamish Maxwell-Stewart: University of New England
Michael Quinlan: UNSW Sydney

Chapter Chapter 5 in Unfree Workers, 2022, pp 113-128 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Collective action by convicts began while they were en route to the Australian colonies. Convict vessels formed an important labour institution in their own right, organised so as to prepare prisoners for the experience of work in the penal colonies. This chapter looks at the many attempts by convicts to seize vessels during the passage to Australia. It also evaluates the considerable obstacles that stood in the path of such mutinous combinations.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7558-4_5

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