New Approaches: Prison Labour in Global Empires

Seminar Series: Labour History | Looking Ahead After Sixty Years In 2022, Labour History, the journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History celebrated its 60th anniversary. During the year six seminars were held to showcase the work being produced in the journal and to discuss the past, present, and future of studies in labour history. The seminars were held online and recordings are now available.

The fifth instalment in our seminar series, Labour History: Looking Ahead After 60 Years, was held on 19 September 2022.

Vivien Miller (Professor of American History, University of Nottingham) spoke about differing approaches to prison labour and prison workers. Jared Davidson (author and archivist, Wellington, NZ) spoke about prison labour in the making of New Zealand’s Pacific.

You can watch the zoom recording here: