From forced to coerced labour: displaced mothers and teen girls in post-World War II Australia

IF 0.7 4区 管理学 Q1 HISTORY
Karen Agutter, C. Kevin
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ABSTRACT At the end of World War Two 1.2 million people were officially labelled Displaced Persons (DPs). Stateless, or refusing to return home, the majority were resettled in other countries including Australia which, like most receiving nations, saw these refugees primarily as a labour force for post-war economic recovery and expansion. However, unlike other nations, DPs destined for Australia signed a work contract which committed them to two years of assigned labour after arrival. This paper considers two specific subsets of these DPs, the ‘unsupported mothers’ (single, widowed, and divorced mothers with young children) and female unaccompanied teenagers. It illuminates the intersections of gender and displacement on the labour status of female DPs in post-war Australia and traces the continuities of coerced labour in their experiences of war and migration. We argue that the early life of female DPs in Australia provides an example of a continuum of forced and coerced labour which had begun under the shadow of war in Nazi Germany and continued after migration.
从强迫劳动到强迫劳动:二战后澳大利亚流离失所的母亲和少女
在第二次世界大战结束时,120万人被官方贴上了流离失所者(DPs)的标签。无国籍或拒绝返回家园,大多数人被重新安置在包括澳大利亚在内的其他国家,这些国家像大多数接收国一样,主要将这些难民视为战后经济复苏和扩张的劳动力。然而,与其他国家不同的是,前往澳大利亚的难民签署了一份工作合同,承诺他们在抵达后要做两年的指定劳动。本文考虑了这些流离失所者的两个特定子集,“不受抚养的母亲”(单身、丧偶和离异的带着年幼孩子的母亲)和女性无人陪伴的青少年。它阐明了性别和流离失所对战后澳大利亚女性流离失所者劳动地位的交叉点,并追溯了她们在战争和移民经历中强迫劳动的连续性。我们认为,澳大利亚女性难民的早期生活提供了一个连续的强迫和强迫劳动的例子,这种劳动始于纳粹德国战争的阴影下,并在移民后继续下去。
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Labor History
Labor History Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Labor History is the pre-eminent journal for historical scholarship on labor. It is thoroughly ecumenical in its approach and showcases the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, labor economists, political scientists, sociologists, social movement theorists, business scholars and all others who write about labor issues. Labor History is also committed to geographical and chronological breadth. It publishes work on labor in the US and all other areas of the world. It is concerned with questions of labor in every time period, from the eighteenth century to contemporary events. Labor History provides a forum for all labor scholars, thus helping to bind together a large but fragmented area of study. By embracing all disciplines, time frames and locales, Labor History is the flagship journal of the entire field. All research articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
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