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George Dent (?–?)

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George Dent (?-?) baker and democratic activist 

Birth: details unknown. Death: details unknown. 

  • Worked as a baker. Involved in South Australian Journeymen Bakers' Society in 1840. Active in worker agitation against the SA Masters and Servants law in 1847.
  • Prominent defender of John Stephenson, editor of South Australian Register, prosecuted as a result of reporting the Burra mining dispute in 1848.

Sources
Michael Quinlan, 'Early Trade Union Organisation in Australia: Three Australian Colonies 1829-1850', Labour and Industry, 1 (1) January 1987, pp 61-95; M Quinlan and M. Gardiner Researching Australian Industrial Relations in the Nineteenth Century’, in Patmore, G. (ed.), History and Industrial Relations, Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Teaching. Monograph No.1, (1990), pp.60-98.

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'Dent, George (?–?)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/dent-george-34867/text43942, accessed 24 May 2025.

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