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'& so we are "slave owners"!': employers and the NSW Aborigines Protection Board trust funds
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Haskins, Victoria
Description
The issue of the ‘Stolen Wages’ – earnings withheld from Aboriginal workers throughout the twentieth century – has made prominent headlines in the last few years. The questions surrounding these disappearing monies will undoubtedly continue to be vexed, given the history of state control over Aboriginal labour, and the concomitant practice of governments withholding the wages of Aboriginal workers in trust funds. The following discussion of the trust fund system as it operated in New South Wales under the Aborigines Protection Board’s regime (1883-1940), is intended to illuminate the context and the complexities of the issue and its signifi cance for racial interrelations then, and indeed now. By interrogating the role of white employers in particular, this article makes a contribution to a deeper comprehension of the white experience and involvement in this history of wage withholding, an understanding critical in achieving the support of non-Aboriginal Australians in the Aboriginal workers’ cause today.
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Labour History Issue 88, p. 147-164
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http://www.asslh.com/journal/index.htm
Date
2005
Publisher
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Keyword(s)
Aboriginal workers;  stolen wages;  trust funds;  Aborigines Protection Board;  New South Wales
Resource Type
journal article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35842
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ISSN:0023-6942
Language
eng
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