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Tasmania - Concept

Training (c. 1860 - c. 1980)

From
c. 1860
To
c. 1980
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Glossary Term

Training, when applied to state wards, meant learning habits of hard work and respectability as well as skills suited to the workforce. In the early twentieth century, the work skills usually involved domestic service for girls and farm labour for boys. Later on the occupations considered suitable for state wards became more wide ranging.

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  • Evans, Caroline, Protecting the Innocent: Tasmania's Neglected Children, Their Parents and State Care, 1890-1918, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1999, 251 pp, http://eprints.utas.edu.au/14453/. Details

Sources used to compile this entry: Evans, Caroline, Protecting the Innocent: Tasmania's Neglected Children, Their Parents and State Care, 1890-1918, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1999, 251 pp, http://eprints.utas.edu.au/14453/.

Prepared by: Caroline Evans