Labour Lines and Colonial Power

Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobility in Australia

Victoria Stead, Jon Eltman, Victoria Stead, Jon Eltman

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781760463076
• Topic: Geschichte
• Subtopic: Australische & ozeanische Geschichte

Today, increases of so-called 'low-skilled' and temporary labour migrations of Pacific Islanders to Australia occur alongside calls for Indigenous people to 'orbit' from remote communities in search of employment opportunities. These trends reflect the persistent neoliberalism within contemporary Australia, as well as the effects of

Table of contents

• List of Figures
• List of Abbreviations
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1. Labour Lines and Colonial Power
• 2. Intermediaries, Servants or Captives: Disentangling Indigenous Labour in D. W. Carnegies’ Exploration of the Western Australian Desert
• 3. ‘Boyd’s Blacks’: Labour and the Making of Settler Lands in Australia and the Pacific
• 4. A Regulated Labour Trade across the Torres Strait: Papuan and New Guinean Domestic Workers in Australia 1901–50
• 5. New Histories but Old Patterns: Kāi Tahu in Australia
• 6. Money Trees, Development Dreams and Colonial Legacies in Contemporary Pasifika Horticultural Labour
• 7. Becoming ‘Overstayers’: The Coloniality of Citizenship and the Resilience of Pacific Farm Workers
• 8. Wellbeing Perspectives, Conceptualisations of Work and Labour Mobility Experiences of Pasifika Trans-Tasman Migrants in Brisbane
• 9. Coloniality of Power and the Contours of Contemporary Sport Industries: Fijians in Australian Rugby
• 10. Emergent Trends in Indigenous Labour Mobility: Flying to Work in the Nation’s Quarry
• 11. Mysterious Motions: A Genealogy of ‘Orbiting’ in Australian Indigenous Affairs
• 12. Of Pizza Ovens in Arnhem Land: The State Quest to Restructure Aboriginal Labour in Remotest Australia
• An Afterword