英语国家社会与文化入门_Unit_17_Work_and_Family_Life.pptVIP

the modern system of the Australian Political Economy (the 1830s and 1840s) 1842: the agitation against transportation in NSW The middle of 19th century : self—government In the 1850s :gold strikes 2012/10/30 * Tiffany Work and family life in the expanding “Free Market” society: Mid 19th-Mid 20th Century Work life in this period was reconstructed around the “free market” model: that the economy would be largely based on the class system of individual entrepreneurs（企业家）investing in agricultural and industrial business. So the convict colony gave way to a class economy. 2012/10/30 * Tiffany Work and family life in the expanding “Free Market” society: Mid 19th-Mid 20th Century The three major class groups in this period were the “free labourers” who sold their labour on the “free labour market”, their employers, who had invested capital to develop agricultural, mining and industrial businesses and needed to employ the workers’ labour to produce their commodities（商品）. 2012/10/30 * Tiffany Work and family life in the expanding “Free Market” society: Mid 19th-Mid 20th Century Many migrants wanted to become self-employed workers rather than employees. The “free market” system became less “free” and more controlled by the government. In south Australia, for example, the government used the Wakefield scheme to develop the colony 2012/10/30 * Tiffany Next part: 2012/10/30 * Edward Gibbon Wakefield He is best known as a colonization theorist and a founder of modem New Zealand. Wakefield first enunciated(清楚地表明) his theory of “Systematic Colonization ”in 1829 when he was still a prisoner. In 1849, Wakefield published his most influential book A View of the Art of colonization, which incorporated all his ideas on the subject of colonization. 2012/10/30 * Joy The Wakefield Scheme A. The part of work The government would make grants of land to investors at a “Sufficient Price”. The “Sufficient Price” would be set high enough to finance an ongoing migration progr