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4 - Land and Labor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2022

Anoma Pieris  and
Lynne Horiuchi
By
Anoma Pieris
Anoma Pieris
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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Summary

Chapter 4 focuses on unguarded POW labor distribution and the farms and rural industries associated with the camps. Across the Pacific theater civilians and POWs, as well as alienated citizens (in North America), supplemented wartime industry through their nominally waged employment in manufacturing and agricultural industries. The chapter looks at the penal economy, the labor regimen and the ways in which the labor of Italian POWs became integrated into a larger network of wartime labor circulation throughout Australia, with insights into the exceptional productivity of camps at Marrinup, Hay and Loveday. Key differences between internee and POW labor employment are contextualized in the wartime mobilization of workers across Australia.

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laborunguarded laborItalian prisoners-of-waragricultureindustryfarmsrailroadpaynetworkControl Centres
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The Architecture of Confinement
Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War
 , pp. 116 - 143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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