Re‐considering managerial use of child labor

Bowden, Bradley; Stevenson-Clarke, Peta

doi:10.1108/17511341011051261

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“…66 Additionally, as alluded to above, and as Bradley Bowden's work has established, Australian children did not participate in the paid labour force at rates comparable with Zelizer's case studies of Britain and the United States. 67 Furthermore, Australian children's gradual exit from the workforce from the late nineteenth century was not accompanied by the levels of intense and impassioned public dialogue that existed in other Western societies; and so children's roles in Australian society were not reinscribed through the very process of public debate in the same way as they were overseas. 68 Australia has its own, particular history of changing meanings of childhood, a definitive account of which is beyond the scope of this article.…”

Section: Economic Sacrifice and The Sacralisation Of Childhoodmentioning

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Bush-lost children’s place in new ‘moral communities’: the emergence of a cultural rite in colonial Victoria (and across Australia), 1850s–1890s

Calabria

Joyce

2022

Rural History

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In the 1850s goldrush, new communities emerged in Victoria with members from diverse origins of place, faith and ethnicity. Settlers usually migrated to pursue wealth; however, the social cohesion these young towns required often came from beyond logics of economy. As the goldrush waned from the 1860s, communal searches for children lost in the bush became a secular ‘rite’ that helped produce ‘moral communities’, which articulated shared values through common beliefs and social practices associated with lost children. Entire segments of communities would gather, suspend economic pursuits and search for lost children, often for days or weeks at a time. The euphoria of finding the child alive, or the solemn reverie when the child perished, forged communal goodwill through shared sentiment. The rite of the search became disseminated through newspapers, literature and word-of-mouth, while the ‘bush’ – a construction referring to various landscapes in Australia – enabled readers to participate in the searches remotely, as part of an imagining and feeling community in the colonies’ various climates. In the gradually secularising settler colonies of Australia in the late nineteenth century, lost children functioned as a fulcrum on which communities could pivot, while establishing social cohesion and communal belonging.

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Section: Economic Sacrifice and The Sacralisation Of Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bush-lost children’s place in new ‘moral communities’: the emergence of a cultural rite in colonial Victoria (and across Australia), 1850s–1890s

Calabria

Joyce

2022

Rural History

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The Role and Regulation of Child Factory Labour During the Industrial Revolution in Australia, 1873–1885

Johnston¹

2020

Int Rev of Soc His

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This study investigates child factory labour in Victoria, the most populous and industrialized colony in Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Three sources of primary data are analysed: Royal Commission reports, texts of bills and statutes, and parliamentary and public debates. The findings inform current academic debates by enhancing understanding of the role played by child workers during industrialization. They show that children were low-cost substitutes for adult males and that child labour was central to ongoing industrialization. A wide range of industries and jobs is identified in which children were employed in harsh conditions, in some instances in greater proportions than adults. Following the reports of the Royal Commission, the parliament of Victoria recognized a child labour problem serious enough to warrant regulation. While noting that circumstances were not as severe as in Britain, it passed legislation in 1885 with provisions that offered more protection to children than those in the British factory act of 1878. The legislation also offered more protection than factory laws in other industrializing colonies and countries. The findings throw light on the character of colonial liberal reformers in a wealthy colony who sought to create a better life for white settlers by adopting policies of state intervention.

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A review of management history from 2010-2014 utilizing a thematic analysis approach

Schwarz

2015

Journal of Management History

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the Management History literature in the Journal of Management History from 2010 to 2014. Design/methodology/approach – This review utilized a thematic analysis approach. Findings – The author found seven distinct themes in the literature in addition to four subthemes. The themes include management pioneers, crisis management, the dark side of management (including the subthemes of slavery, child labor, monetary factors and gender issues), ancient texts, regional differences, religion and historical impacts of key management concepts. Practical implications – This review displays management history research themes, which enables a manager to efficiently view various lenses with which to analyze management issues. Originality/value – By bringing together previously disparate streams of work to understand the themes of management history, this paper analyzes the direction of research, identifies gaps in the literature and begins to more effectively build a cumulative research tradition.

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Re‐considering managerial use of child labor

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Bush-lost children’s place in new ‘moral communities’: the emergence of a cultural rite in colonial Victoria (and across Australia), 1850s–1890s

Bush-lost children’s place in new ‘moral communities’: the emergence of a cultural rite in colonial Victoria (and across Australia), 1850s–1890s

The Role and Regulation of Child Factory Labour During the Industrial Revolution in Australia, 1873–1885

A review of management history from 2010-2014 utilizing a thematic analysis approach

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