Labour and Industry in Australia - From First Settlement in 1788 to Establishment of Commonwealth in

Klappentext The culmination of a life's work as Australia's statistician! Coghlan's history! published in 1918! embraces trade! population growth and land. Zusammenfassung Timothy Coghlan was the statistician for the government of New South Wales from 1886! and is regarded as Australia's first 'mandarin'. This monumental book! first published in 1918! was the culmination of his life's work! and is a personal history of Australia embracing materials! trade! population growth and land. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part IV continued: 4. Immigration; 5. Land legislation and settlement; 6. Industries; 7. Wages and conditions of labour; 8. Prices; 9. The railway beginnings of Australia; 10. Currency, banking, and exchange; Part V. From the Introduction of Free Selection before Survey to the Establishment of Protection in Victoria, and the Beginning of a Vigorous Policy of Public Works in all the Colonies: 1. Introduction to the fifth period; 2. Immigration; 3. Recrudescence of bushranging; 4. Land legislation and settlement; 5. Labour and wages; 6. The introduction of coloured labour into Queensland; 7. Prices; 8. Tariff changes and the establishment of protection in Victoria; 9. Intercolonial tariff relations; 10. The crisis in Queensland during 1866.

Product details

• Authors: T. A. Coghlan, Coghlan T. A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2011
• EAN: 9781108030687
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03068-7
• No. of pages: 608
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania; Labour and Industry in Australia 4 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Australia, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history