Ben Maddison
Biographic Data
| ID | 687812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Maddison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Maddison |
| SIGNATURE | BEN MADDISON |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adrian Howkins. The Polar Regions
Like all polar explorers, Adrian Howkins has had to weigh up the risk/reward equation in bringing his project to fruition. The risks of undertaking a book such as this were quite considerable. Where a more conventional approach would have clung to the coattails of straightforward chronology, Howkins has abandoned these well-known coordinates, and leapt into the whirlpool of what is potentially a chaos of borderless and formless subject matter. No…
The Enderby Settlement
In November 1840 the British Antarctic and Southern Ocean expedition led by James Clark Ross came to anchor at the Auckland Islands. Maunahuka, or the Auckland Islands, is a small archipelago in th
Radical Commons Discourse and the Challenges of Colonialism
The association among commons, rights, and freedom has been central to the radical historiographical tradition. This article investigates the origins and limitations of this association. First, it examines the evolution of the association among the three concepts, identifying the important role played by the seventeenth-century English Diggers. The article then examines the intersection of radical commons discourse with colonialism, drawing on th…
Labour Commodification and Classification
Labour commodification is a core process in building capitalist society. Nonetheless, it is given remarkably little attention in labour and social historiography, because assumptions about the process have obscured its historical character. Abandoning these assumptions, a close study of labour commodification in the boilermaking trades of late colonial New South Wales (Australia) illustrates the historical character of the process. In these trade…
“De‐skilling” the 1891 Censuses in New South Wales and Tasmania
The 1891 censuses taken in New South Wales and Tasmania abandoned the long‐established practice of grouping working‐class occupations into “skilled” and “unskilled” categories. Instead, they were grouped into “Industrial” categories that did not differentiate between grades or degrees of skill. In this paper the sudden disruption to the preceding practice is explained as an effect of the intersection of two histories: the changing meaning of skil…
The skilful unskilled labourer
For several centuries artisanal meanings dominated Anglophone discourse on skill. By the start of the twentieth century this dominance was being eroded. The records of the New South Wales Arbitration Court show that older artisanal meanings were losing the credibility that they used to have and were being contested by new understandings of skill more attuned to the commodified labour regime of industrial capitalism. Heydon's apparent oxymoron ref…
The Day of the Just Reasoner
TA. Coghlan, best known as the author of Labour and Industry in Australia and for his innovatory statistical work, also wrote articles for the Bulletin in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The often humorous approach he adopted veiled a more serious project of challenging bourgeois and working class modes of thought and explanation. He believed that he was writing in a transcendent historical moment, in which there was no place for the barbarous, p…
Labour Commodification and Skilled Selves in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia
This article uses the concept of labour commodification to critique common historiographical portraits of skilled workers in transition to industrial capitalism. The meanings with which skilled workers in late nineteenth-century Australia understood their own labour went far beyond a repertoire of technical abilities. They viewed skill as a socio-biological disposition specific to a human type (adult, male, Anglo-Saxon), and this view intimately …
From 'Moral Economy' to 'Political Economy' in New South Wales, 1870-1900
Between 1870 and 1900 in New South Wales the principles and practices of a ‘moral economy’ were challenged and replaced by those of ‘political economy’. This displacement involved the dissemination
The Day of the Just Reasoner
TA. Coghlan, best known as the author of Labour and Industry in Australia and for his innovatory statistical work, also wrote articles for the Bulletin in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The often humorous approach he adopted veiled a more serious project of challenging bourgeois and working class modes of thought and explanation. He believed that he was writing in a transcendent historical moment, in which there was no place for the barbarous, p…
Labour Commodification and Skilled Selves in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia
This article uses the concept of labour commodification to critique common historiographical portraits of skilled workers in transition to industrial capitalism. The meanings with which skilled workers in late nineteenth-century Australia understood their own labour went far beyond a repertoire of technical abilities. They viewed skill as a socio-biological disposition specific to a human type (adult, male, Anglo-Saxon), and this view intimately …
Radical Commons Discourse and the Challenges of Colonialism
The association among commons, rights, and freedom has been central to the radical historiographical tradition. This article investigates the origins and limitations of this association. First, it examines the evolution of the association among the three concepts, identifying the important role played by the seventeenth-century English Diggers. The article then examines the intersection of radical commons discourse with colonialism, drawing on th…
Labour Commodification and Skilled Selves in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia
This article uses the concept of labour commodification to critique common historiographical portraits of skilled workers in transition to industrial capitalism. The meanings with which skilled workers in late nineteenth-century Australia understood their own labour went far beyond a repertoire of technical abilities. They viewed skill as a socio-biological disposition specific to a human type (adult, male, Anglo-Saxon), and this view intimately …
From 'Moral Economy' to 'Political Economy' in New South Wales, 1870-1900
Between 1870 and 1900 in New South Wales the principles and practices of a ‘moral economy’ were challenged and replaced by those of ‘political economy’. This displacement involved the dissemination
The Day of the Just Reasoner
TA. Coghlan, best known as the author of Labour and Industry in Australia and for his innovatory statistical work, also wrote articles for the Bulletin in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The often humorous approach he adopted veiled a more serious project of challenging bourgeois and working class modes of thought and explanation. He believed that he was writing in a transcendent historical moment, in which there was no place for the barbarous, p…
“De‐skilling” the 1891 Censuses in New South Wales and Tasmania
The 1891 censuses taken in New South Wales and Tasmania abandoned the long‐established practice of grouping working‐class occupations into “skilled” and “unskilled” categories. Instead, they were grouped into “Industrial” categories that did not differentiate between grades or degrees of skill. In this paper the sudden disruption to the preceding practice is explained as an effect of the intersection of two histories: the changing meaning of skil…
The skilful unskilled labourer
For several centuries artisanal meanings dominated Anglophone discourse on skill. By the start of the twentieth century this dominance was being eroded. The records of the New South Wales Arbitration Court show that older artisanal meanings were losing the credibility that they used to have and were being contested by new understandings of skill more attuned to the commodified labour regime of industrial capitalism. Heydon's apparent oxymoron ref…
Labour Commodification and Classification
Labour commodification is a core process in building capitalist society. Nonetheless, it is given remarkably little attention in labour and social historiography, because assumptions about the process have obscured its historical character. Abandoning these assumptions, a close study of labour commodification in the boilermaking trades of late colonial New South Wales (Australia) illustrates the historical character of the process. In these trade…
Radical Commons Discourse and the Challenges of Colonialism
The association among commons, rights, and freedom has been central to the radical historiographical tradition. This article investigates the origins and limitations of this association. First, it examines the evolution of the association among the three concepts, identifying the important role played by the seventeenth-century English Diggers. The article then examines the intersection of radical commons discourse with colonialism, drawing on th…
The Enderby Settlement
In November 1840 the British Antarctic and Southern Ocean expedition led by James Clark Ross came to anchor at the Auckland Islands. Maunahuka, or the Auckland Islands, is a small archipelago in th
Adrian Howkins. The Polar Regions
Like all polar explorers, Adrian Howkins has had to weigh up the risk/reward equation in bringing his project to fruition. The risks of undertaking a book such as this were quite considerable. Where a more conventional approach would have clung to the coattails of straightforward chronology, Howkins has abandoned these well-known coordinates, and leapt into the whirlpool of what is potentially a chaos of borderless and formless subject matter. No…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Australian History and Society (5 works) · History (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Commodification (3 works) · Historiography (3 works)