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dc.contributor.authorMiddleton, Sue
dc.date.accessioned2008-12-19T00:49:30Z
dc.date.available2008-12-19T00:49:30Z
dc.date.issued2008-06
dc.identifier.citationMiddleton, S. (2008). Schooling the labouring classes: children, families, and learning in Wellington, 1840-1845. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 18(2), 133-146.en
dc.identifier.issn1747-5066
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/1727
dc.description.abstractPublished 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.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/09620210802351383
dc.subjecthistoryen
dc.subjectNew Zealanden
dc.subjectcapital and labouren
dc.subjectlettersen
dc.subjectsocial classen
dc.subjectliteracyen
dc.titleSchooling the labouring classes: children, families, and learning in Wellington, 1840-1845en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09620210802351383en
dc.relation.isPartOfInternational Studies in Sociology of Educationen_NZ
pubs.begin-page133en_NZ
pubs.elements-id33161
pubs.end-page146en_NZ
pubs.issue2en_NZ
pubs.volume18en_NZ


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