CAPSTRANS: Affiliated Staff

CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Professor Rob Castle

Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic), University of Wollongong

Qualifications

MEc (Sydney)
BEc (Sydney)

Research Program

Mobility and Exclusion

Research Specialisation

Labour economics and international economics—particularly labour, employment and international economic institutions.

Current Research Projects

Colonial Labour Regimes (with Jim Hagan and Andrew Wells)
Selling Their Souls (with Jim Hagan, Robert Knight [Adelaide University] and Andrew Wells)

Recent Publications

(forthcoming 2004) with Jim Hagan and Andrew Wells, “Labour Relations in the Rubber Plantations of Indochina, 1910-1940”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 34, May.
(forthcoming 2004) with Jim Hagan and Andrew Wells, “Unfree Labour on the Cattle Stations of Northern Australia, the Tea Gardens of Assam, and the Rubber Plantations of Indochina, 1920-1950”, in N. Alpers, G. Campbell and M. Salmon (eds.), Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia, Volume 1: Resisting Bondage, Frank Cass, London.
(forthcoming 2004) with Jim Hagan, “Turning Black Into White: the Exemption System in Queensland, 1908 -1965”, Aboriginal History.
(2004) with Di Kelly, “International Education: Quality assurance and standards in offshore teaching: exemplars and problems”, Quality in Higher Education, UK.
(2003) with Jim Hagan and Andrew Wells, “Colonial Companies, Indentured Labour and Imperialism, 1860-1940”, in B. Bowden and J. Kellett (eds.), Transforming Labour, Brisbane, pp. 62-68.
(1999) with DP Chaudhri, Chris Nyland and Trang Nguyen, “Labour Clauses, the World Trade Organization and Child Labour in India”, The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour, Mansell Publishing, London, pp.182-201.
(1999) “Tackling a Thesis”, Researching Industrial Relations, Second Edition, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, pp.1-12.
(1999) with Jim Hagan, “Settlers and the State: the Creation of an Aboriginal Workforce in Australia”, Aboriginal History, Vol 22, pp.11-22.
(1999) with Chris Nyland, “The ILO and the Australian Contribution to the International Labour Standards Debate”, Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 3, pp. 355-371.