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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Ethical Challenge in Colonial New South Wales -- 1. Elizabeth Macquarie's Early Years, 1778-1803 -- 2. Lachlan Macquarie: Youth and Maturity, 1762-1803 -- 3. Elizabeth and Lachlan: Marriage, Tragedy and a New Beginning -- 4. Heart and Mind: The Enlightenment, Literature and the Bible -- 5. The Journey across the World -- 6. The New Old Land -- 7. Introducing the New Regime -- 8. Forgiveness and Emancipation: A Christian Imperative -- 9. The Complex Personas of Samuel Marsden -- 10. The Source of Tension: Marsden as Magistrate -- 11. The Governor's Wife -- 12. 'Treat Them As Europeans': Macquarie and Aboriginal People -- 13. Macquarie and the Control of the Church -- 14. The Bent Brothers: Opposition from Another Direction -- 15. Managing Female Convicts: An Unexpected Confrontation -- 16. Calculated Misinformation: Marsden's Letter about the Female Convicts -- 17. Putting Down Aboriginal Resistance -- 18. John Campbell and the Controversial 'Philo Free' Letter -- 19. Difficult People and Strange Behaviour: Unravelling the Tangled Threads of 1816-1817 -- 20. 'With Deep Regret': Macquarie Resigns as Governor -- 21. Macquarie is Forced to Defend Himself -- 22. Acting for the Common Good: The Bible and the Bank -- 23. Controversy Mounts at Home and in England -- 24. 'Ill-Considered Compassion' -- 25. Macquarie's Final Year as Governor -- 26. The Journey Back to England -- 27. 'My Name and Character': Macquarie's Reflections and Responses -- 28. A Necessary Interlude: Revising Lachlan Macquarie -- 29. The Final Days of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie -- Epilogue: Lachlan Macquarie's Final Testimony -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Sources -- About the Author.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE -- CHAPTER I-ABOLITIONISTS AND EMANCIPATORS -- Wilberforce and his Colleagues-Spiritual Forces-'Property' alarmed-The Asiento-Attitudes of: Burke, Pitt, Fox, Duke of Wellington, Joseph Sturge, John Gladstone-The Religious Bodies. -- CHAPTER II-ABOLITIONISTS AND EMANCIPATORS -- Wilberforce and Buxton-Buxton's Family and Early Life-Buxton enters Parliament-Joins Wilberforce-Historic Conference at Cromer Hall-Clarkson on Work of Wilberforce and Buxton. -- CHAPTER III-ABOLITIONISTS AND EMANCIPATORS -- Motion for Emancipation-Attitude of Canning-Conflict between Planters and Colonial Office-Wilberforce applies for Chiltern Hundreds-Slaves' Revolt-Slave Trade in Mauritius-The Hottentots of South Africa-The Decision of 1830-The Cruelties of Slavery-The 18Death of Wilberforce. -- CHAPTER IV-THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY-APPRENTICESHIP -- Good Behaviour of Emancipated Negroes-Apprenticeship -- its Drawbacks and Abuses-Houses of Correction-Joseph Sturge-His Visit to West Indies-Negro Progress-Building of Churches and Schools-Apprenticeship Abolished. -- CHAPTER V-THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY-COOLIE LABOUR -- First Indians Shipped-High Mortality-Flogging-French Colonies-The Recruiters-Fines-'Half Free'-'A Machine for sending Men to Prison'-'Protectors'-The India Office-Coolie Labour Abolished. -- CHAPTER VI-THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY-ABORIGINES' PROTECTION -- The Aborigines Committee-A Great Charter-Buxton's 'Three Great Objects'-The Kaffir War of 1835-Land-Nine Principles of Government. -- CHAPTER VII-THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY-BUXTON'S LAST YEARS -- Foreign Slave Trade-Prince Albert and the Niger Expedition-Its 'Failure'-Buxton's Ill-health-Death-His Tomb in Westminster Abbey. -- CHAPTER VIII-VICTORIAN STRUGGLES.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The radical social work paradigm -- Front-line management -- The book -- 2 The labour process perspective and management -- Introduction -- The legacy of Marx -- Braverman and the rediscovery of the labour process -- Managerial control strategies: does management always choose the same strategy? -- The indeterminacy of labour power: is labour readily susceptible to managerial domination? -- Worker consent: does labour always have to be actively controlled by management? -- Monolithic management: is management a unified coherent interest? -- Conclusion -- 3 Managing state social work: towards an industrial model of the labour process? -- Introduction -- The radical social work paradigm -- Management control strategies: does management always choose the same strategy? -- The indeterminacy of labour power: is labour readily susceptible to managerial domination? -- Individual practice -- Teamwork -- Workplace trade unionism -- Worker consent: does labour always have to be actively controlled by management? -- Monolithic management: is management a unified coherent interest? -- Conclusion -- 4 Social work as a bureau-professional state labour process -- Introduction -- State labour processes -- Professional work and the state -- The social work labour process in the welfare state -- The Seebohm Report: consolidating the social work labour process in a social democratic ideological context -- The bureau-professional organisational structure of the social work labour process -- Conclusion: the social work labour process reconsidered -- 5 Levels in the social work labour process -- Introduction -- Central government -- Local government -- Corporate management -- Social work in local government -- Middle management

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