Author: Queensland. Dept. of Labour
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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The Lone Hand
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Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Report
Author: Queensland. Dept. of Labour
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Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Octopus Crowd
Author: Stephen Mullins
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817320245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia’s northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia’s most influential pearler. The combination honed the floating station system to the point where it was accused of exhausting pearling grounds, elbowing out small-time operators, strangling the economies of pearling ports, and bringing the industry to the brink of disaster. Combination partners were vilified as monopolists—they were referred to as an “octopus crowd”—and their schooners were stigmatized as hell ships and floating sweatshops. Schooner-based floating stations crossed maritime frontiers with impunity, testing colonial and national territorial jurisdictions. The Clark Combination passed through four fisheries management regimes, triggering significant change and causing governments to alter laws and extend maritime boundaries. It drew labor from ports across the Asia-Pacific, and its product competed in a volatile world market. Octopus Crowd takes all of these factors into account to explain Australian pearling during its schooner age. It argues that the demise of the floating station system was not caused by resource depletion, as was often predicted, but by ideology and Australia’s shifting sociopolitical landscape
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817320245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia’s northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia’s most influential pearler. The combination honed the floating station system to the point where it was accused of exhausting pearling grounds, elbowing out small-time operators, strangling the economies of pearling ports, and bringing the industry to the brink of disaster. Combination partners were vilified as monopolists—they were referred to as an “octopus crowd”—and their schooners were stigmatized as hell ships and floating sweatshops. Schooner-based floating stations crossed maritime frontiers with impunity, testing colonial and national territorial jurisdictions. The Clark Combination passed through four fisheries management regimes, triggering significant change and causing governments to alter laws and extend maritime boundaries. It drew labor from ports across the Asia-Pacific, and its product competed in a volatile world market. Octopus Crowd takes all of these factors into account to explain Australian pearling during its schooner age. It argues that the demise of the floating station system was not caused by resource depletion, as was often predicted, but by ideology and Australia’s shifting sociopolitical landscape
Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture and Stock for the Year ...
Author: Queensland. Dept. of Agriculture and Stock
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Commonwealth Arbitration Reports
Author: Australia. Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration
Publisher:
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Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
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Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
The Defeat of Distance
Author: John Gunn
Publisher: john gunn
ISBN: 9780702217074
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher: john gunn
ISBN: 9780702217074
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Proceedings
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Fragments of the Everyday
Author: Richard Stone
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642276018
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Richard Stone has drawn on his extensive knowledge of the National Library of Australia's treasure trove of ephemera to compile this fascinating visual journey. Whether designed to inform, persuade or shock, these remarkable 'reminders' are a fascinating record of Australian life over the last 150 years.
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642276018
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Richard Stone has drawn on his extensive knowledge of the National Library of Australia's treasure trove of ephemera to compile this fascinating visual journey. Whether designed to inform, persuade or shock, these remarkable 'reminders' are a fascinating record of Australian life over the last 150 years.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly
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Category : Queensland
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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Publisher:
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Category : Queensland
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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Queensland Agricultural Journal
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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