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Dr Maxine Darnell

Maxine Darnell

Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Business Economics and Public Policy

Qualifications

B.Ec (Hons) Phd (UNE)

Contact

Email: mdarnell@une.edu.au
Room: W040 610
Phone: 02 6773 3595 (or +61 2 6773 3595 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3596

Areas of Teaching

  • Introductory Microeconomics
  • Introductory Macroeconomics
  • Australian Economic History

Research interests

My research is within the Australian economic and labour history field and is in two distinct areas. Firstly, Indentured Chinese labour to the Australian colonies in the 19th century focussing mainly on the reasons for the introduction of these labourers, the conditions under which they laboured and the social and political machinations that surrounded their employment. My second area of research interest is in co-operative finance schemes with particular emphasis on the history of Starr-Bowkett Societies in Australia and their future place in globalised financial markets.

Publications

‘”Freehold Property for Mechanics”: A brief insight into Starr-Bowkett societies’ in G. Patmore, J. Shields and N. Balnave (eds) The Past is before us; Proceedings of the Ninth National Labour History Conference, University of Sydney 2005, pp. 97-106.

“Life and labour for Indentured Chinese shepherds, New South Wales, 1847-1855”, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 6, 2004, pp. 137-158.

“Bulwark of the country and (...) salvation of the colony: class alignments and the importation of indentured Chinese labourers”, in R. Markey (ed) Labour and Community: Historical Essays, Wollongong, University of Wollongong Press, 2001, pp. 201-223.

“Master and Servant, Squatter and Shepherd: The regulation of indentured Chinese labourers, New South Wales, 1847-1853” in A. Curthoys, H. Chan and Lan-Hung Nora Chiang (eds) The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, Taipei and Canberra, Interdisciplinary Group for Australian Studies (IGAS) and Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora (ANU), Monograph No. 3, 2001, pp. 54-68.