THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES: A PORTRAIT OF THEIR SOCIETY: Second Edition KENNETH MADDOCK

Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books. 1982. Pp. x+ 197. Map, figures, notes, bibliography. index. Price: $A7.95.     

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CHANGING PERSPECTIVES IN BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY. Kenneth Younger. Chatham House Essays: 7. London, Oxford University Press, 1964. Pp. 139. 15/9.

BRITISH EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. R. T. Appleyard. Australian National University, Canberra, 1964. Pp. xiii + 255. £2/17/6.

BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY 1955–1963. Miriam Camps. London, Oxford University Press, 1964. Pp. x + 547. £A4.14.6.

INTERNAL WAR. Harry Eckstein (ed.). Glencoe, The Free Press, 1964. Pp. 339. $6.50.

MODERN GUERRILLA WARFARE. Franklin Mark Osanka (ed.). Glencoe, The Free Press, 1962. Pp. xxii + 519, bibliog.

MALAYSIA. K. G. Tregonning. Cheshire for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1964. Pp. 98. 13/6.

MALAYSIA; A SURVEY. Wang Gungwu (ed.). Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1964. Pp. 466. £5.

SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA. Milton E. Osborne. Data Paper: Number 53, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1964. Pp. 115. $2.50.

SOUTHEAST ASIAN UNIVERSITY. A COMPARATIVE ACCOUNT OF SOME DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS. T. H. Silcock. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1964. Pp. xiii + 194. $6.

CHINA. K. S. Latourette. New Jersey, Prentice‐Hall, 1964. Pp. viii + 152. $1.95.

MODERN CHINA. Edited by A. Feuerwerker. New Jersey, Prentice‐Hall, 1964. Pp. vi + 186. $1.95.

CEYLON. S. Arasaratnam. New Jersey, Prentice‐Hall, 1964. Pp. vi + 182. $1.95.

TRADITIONAL INDIA. Edited by O. L. Chavarria‐Aguilar. New Jersey, Prentice‐Hall, 1964. Pp. vi + 153. $1.95.

DEFIANCE IN MANCHURIA: THE MAKING OF JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY, 1931–1932. Ogata Sadako. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif., 1964. Pp. xvi + 259, bibliog. $5, Aust. 65/6.

THE MILITARY AND SOCIETY IN LATIN AMERICA. John J. Johnson. Stanford University Press, California, 1964. x + 308 pp. $7.00.     

Is domestic work a worst form of child labour? The findings of a six-country study of the psychosocial effects of child domestic work

In this paper, we report on a study of the psychosocial effects of child domestic work (CDW) in six countries and the relevance of our findings to international legislation. Our results suggest that CDW is highly heterogeneous. While some young child domestic workers work long hours, suffer physical punishment and are at risk of psychosocial harm, others are able to attend school and benefit from good relationships with their employers and networks of support. Child domestic workers in India and Togo were most at risk of psychosocial harm. We conclude that classification of this employment as hazardous would not be appropriate and could be counterproductive and instead propose that legislation focuses on protective factors such as a social and community support.     

Venezuela's national colonization programme: the Tovar colony,a German agricultural settlement

A decision by the Council of the Indies in 1801 authorizing the colonies to accept overseas immigrants cleared the way for the colonization of Spanish America by foreign settlers. In Venezuela, the first practical attempt to promote immigration came ten years later, when the Marquis del Toro offered to donate land to incoming white immigrants. Immigration schemes were planned and executed by private agents, most of whom were closely connected with the Caraqueño landowners. However, it proved very difficult to attract Europeans because Venezuela offered potential immigrants few economic advantages, and most outsiders viewed the country as politically unstable. There was, however, one exception to encourage European immigration, the Tovar colony, founded by one of the oldest and most powerful families within the government, which awarded the Tovars, through their intermediary and project director, General Codazzi, the largest loan ever granted under the immigration programme. The Tovars were ably assisted in this task by Codazzi, whose geographical knowledge and experience were crucial to the success of the Tovar colony. The project dovetailed perfectly within the ideological interest of the government. Although the scheme benefited only the Tovar family, in public, it was presented as essential to the national economic interest.