Emerging Scholars, New Research: Labour History in Canberra

Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Canberra Region Branch Seminar
in conjunction with the School of History, Research School of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Social Sciences, at the Australian National University (ANU)

The seminar will bring together new and emerging scholars currently working on various aspects of labour history.

The following papers will be presented:

• Trish Downes (ANU), A 'great benefit': convict labour in Western Australia 1850-1868
• David Roth (ANU), is The Labour Economics of Chemical Restraint in Mental Institutions under the System of Moral Management – 1870s to 1920s
• Rhianne Grieve (ANU), Harmony in Robert Owen's 'New Moral World’
• Aileen Walsh (ANU), Slavery or Labour: Diminishment vs Development
• Rhys Williams (ANU), A.L. Morton and A People's History of England ('80 Years of People's History')
• Chris Monnox (Macquarie) Local Knowledge, Local Influence, and the Right to Vote in Early Twentieth Century Australia

At 6pm on Thursday 27 September 2018, in Coombs Extension Building (#8), Seminar Room 1.13

9 Fellows Road, Australian National University, Canberra, Acton   ACT  2601 Australia

**Please note that due to a clash with a major public lecture at the university, this event has been moved from the previously advertised date of 20 September to 27 September**