| Abstrakt: |
Studies the management of convict labor at Australia's first large-scale manufacturing enterprises, the Sydney and Parramatta lumber yards, 1788-1832. It is clear that these were much more complex workplaces than popular perceptions of the terror of the convict system would suggest because of the sophistication of labor management policies, objectives, and strategies as well as the existence of covert convict resistance. To gain greater insight into these organizations, use is made of P. Edwards' simple, technical and bureaucratic models of the control of the labor process. The management of the labor process at the lumber yards relied on a sophisticated and complex bureaucratic system of control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
