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      Schooling the labouring classes: children, families, and learning in Wellington, 1840-1845

      Middleton, Sue
      DOI
       10.1080/09620210802351383
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      Middleton, S. (2008). Schooling the labouring classes: children, families, and learning in Wellington, 1840-1845. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 18(2), 133-146.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1727
      Abstract
      Published in London between 1839 and 1852 and aligned with the commercial

      objectives of the New Zealand Company, the New Zealand Journal included letters from

      emigrants. This paper studies letters written by a small cohort of rural labourers who

      emigrated from Ham House in Surrey to Wellington in 1841. Following Dorothy Smith,

      I read them as ethnographic data, interrogating them in relation to ruling-class texts

      including Company records, newspaper reports and correspondence between capitalists,

      professionals and politicians. The labourers’ letters depict capital-labour (class) and

      colonial (race) relations in embodied form. The everyday actualities of their activities

      were co-ordinated by extra-local social relations of colonialism and flows of capital and

      labour. Their schooling in England had been designed to ‘keep them in their place’. With

      reference to the sparse archival resources remaining from the first years of

      commercially-driven settlement, before there was an apparatus of state, I consider how

      changing material conditions in the settlement enabled and constrained learning

      opportunities for these labourers’ children.
      Date
      2008-06
      Type
      Journal Article
      Publisher
      Routledge
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