Absenteeism, Absconding and Escape

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

Chapter Chapter 8 in Unfree Workers, 2022, pp 193-225 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Both male and female convicts defended the right to their own time by walking off their place of employment after the end of the working day and on traditional holidays. They also ran away in impressive numbers. Collective absconding was particularly common amongst road gangs and women in female factories. Increases in the rate of absconding often occurred in the wake of other protests—a demonstration of the ways in which different forms of action were linked one to another. As well as charting rates of absconding and absenteeism, the chapter examines which convicts were more likely to ‘vote with their feet’ by quitting their place of employment.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7558-4_8

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