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Paying Aboriginal Rural Workers: Racism, the Labour Market and Worker Agency 支付土著农村工人:种族主义，劳动力市场和工人机构

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Labour History Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.3828/labourhistory.2023.20

Christina Lawrence, Jennifer Jones

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“At Work, in Hospital, or in Gaol”: Women in British Guiana’s Jails, 1838–1917 《在工作、在医院、或在监狱》:1838-1917年英属圭亚那监狱中的妇女

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Labour History Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.3828/labourhistory.2023.21

Estherine Adams

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The Unreliable Witness: Clarence Dakin, ASIO, and Espionage 《不可靠的证人:克拉伦斯·达金、ASIO和间谍

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Labour History Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.3828/labourhistory.2023.25

Phillip Deery

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The Colonial Ambiguities of Military Labour on the Penal Frontier: The Newcastle Penal Station 1804–24 军事劳工在刑事边境的殖民模糊性:1804 - 1824年纽卡斯尔刑事站

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Labour History Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.3828/labourhistory.2023.22

Tamsin O’Connor

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Australian Society for the Study of Labour History 澳大利亚劳工史研究学会