
Constructing Capitalism
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Glossary
- 1 Key issues in colonial political economy, 1788-1901
- Colonial democracy
- The colonial state and British imperialism
- Economic expansion and the Empire
- 2 The origins of Australian capitalism, 1788-1830
- The imperial state in colonial New South Wales
- Crown patronage and land alienation
- The convict labour system and the beginnings of wage labour
- Production, accumulation and development
- 3 Making capitalist property relations: politics and land policy, 1830-1860
- Shaping a civil society and a colonial state
- The market in colonial land, 1830-1860
- Pastoralist reaction to imperial land policy, 1842-1846
- The 1846-1847 Regulations
- Land reforms: the assertion of a populist solution, 1855-1862
- Conclusion
- 4 The rise of merchant capital
- The commodification of labour: the production of labour power
- Systematic colonisation and assisted immigration, 1830-1846
- The development of a colonial labour market, 1847-1860
- The populist resistance to commodification in the 1850s
- Merchant capital and constraints on accumulation
- The economics of imperialism
- Conclusion
- 5 Landed property
- The limits of colonial political democracy
- Land reform and finance in landed property
- The land market and mortgages
- Finance in landed property, 1860-1890
- 6 The colonial state and economic development
- Victoria 1856-1890: sources of public income
- taxes, charges, land sales and borrowing
- State expenditure in Victoria, 1856-1890: social reproduction, public assets and interest payments
- New South Wales 1856-1890: sources of income
- taxes, charges, land sales and borrowing
- State expenditure in New South Wales, 1856-1890: social reproduction, public assets and public debt servicing
- The colonial state in capitalist relations of production
- Conclusion
- 7 Finance capital in the Australian colonies
- Mining and pastoral developments, 1850-1872
- Financing pastoral expansion, 1872-1890
- The financial institutions
- Anglo-colonial finance capital in pastoralism
- Conclusion
- 8 Classes in colonial Australia: a Marxist viewpoint
- Class in Marxist historiography
- Value and surplus value in the private economy
- Value and surplus value in the public sector
- Colonial landed property and capitalist ground rent
- Forms of capital accumulation and production relations
- International class relations
- The state, politics and class relations
- 9 Crisis and reconstruction in colonial political economy, 1890-1901
- A new form of state
- Diversification in colonial capitalism
- Restructuring the public and private economies
- A new class hegemony
- Notes
- Index
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