Paupers, Poor Relief & Poor Houses in Western Australia: 1829 -1910 by Penelope Hetherington

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library book with external stickers removed. Protective plastic covering. Partial date due slip on half-title page now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Minor edgewear. Pages are sunned. Book is clean and binding is very good.

With a sense of simplicity, Hetherington guides us toward contemplating Western Australia as a state whose present wealth was built on the backs of indentured labourers, ex-convicts and penniless assisted immigrants.

Who fed the indentured servants who were cast adrift by their masters? What was the government's solution to the problem of unemployed paupers, many of them ex-convicts? And what became of the destitute women and children and the sick and insane? (back cover)