Introduction: Understanding childhood in nineteenth-century Western Australia -- Pt. I. European children. Ch. 1. Counting the European population. Ch. 2. Family and child labour. Ch. 3. Parsimony and discrimination in education. Ch. 4. Paupers, bastards, delinquents and larrikins -- Pt. II. Aboriginal children. Ch. 5. Estimating the Aboriginal population. Ch. 6. Institutions for Aboriginal children in the south. Ch. 7. Family and child labour in the pastoral industry. Ch. 8. Child labour in the pearling industry. Ch. 9. Rehearsing the future: 'Half-castes' and reserves -- Conclusion: Holding a work force in bondage
Summary
Documents the exploitation of both Aboriginal and European children by the settler elite of nineteenth century Western Australia
Analysis
Aboriginal children
Child labour
Western Australia
Orphans
Social conditions
Participation in education
History, 1801-1900
Statistics
Australian Aboriginal studies (Western Australia) Modern history (c 1788-1914)