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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Period -- 2. Sources -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Outline -- 1. 'Taking their labour and art to the best market': The Political Economy of British Emigration to the Continent -- 1. The Conflicting Imperatives of Trade and War (c.1710-1824) -- 2. Emigrant Artisans and Exported Machinery: From Prohibition to Liberalisation (1824-43) -- 3. A Case Study: Machine-Made Lace -- 4. Counting Labour Emigrants |
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5. Short or Long Distance, Temporary or Definitive: The Features of Migration -- 6. Wages across the Channel -- 7. Conclusion -- 2. 'The three principal manufactories at Paris are conducted by Englishmen': The Sectors of Workers' Emigration -- 1. Textile and Textile Machinery -- 2. Iron, Machine-Making, and Mining -- 3. The Railways -- 4. Four Artisans and Their Trades -- 5. Conclusion -- 3. The Gender of Migration: Women, Children, and Textiles across the Channel -- 1. Linen and Jute Spinners across the Channel -- 2. Gender and the Transition to Machine-Made Lace -- 3. Children at Work in Lace |
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4. Men's, Women's, and Children's Wages in Lace -- 5. Conclusion -- 4. 'Not one of us...is able to speak more than a few words of the language': Language, Cultural Practices, and Religion -- 1. Coping with the Language Barrier -- 2. Protestant Worship and a Protestant Education -- 3. Newspapers and Games -- 4. Meat-Eating and Heavy Drinking -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. 'Driven from his native land to seek employment under a foreign despotism': Unionists, Chartists, and Insurgents -- 1. Bargaining Wages, Setting Up Unions -- 2. Early Internationalism -- 3. Chartist Artisans |
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4. Collective Readers and the Hearing Public -- 5. Insurgents? -- 6. Conclusion -- 6. 'À bas les Anglais!': Integration and Rejection -- 1. 1815-48: An Imperfect Integration? -- 2. The Manufacturing Crisis, the 1848 Revolution, and Anglophobia -- 3. The Scottish and Irish Flax Workers at La Foudre -- 4. The Calais Lacemakers -- 5. Making Sense of Riots and Expulsions -- Conclusion -- 1. From Calais to Australia -- 2. 'To the Dominions of the Czar and the Sultan': New Horizons -- 3. A Memory in the Making -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent, where they played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways throughout the Industrial Revolution. |
| Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
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Foreign workers, British -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Industrial revolution -- Europe.
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Europe -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
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Economics.
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Industry.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0198835841 9780198835844 (OCoLC)1342619775 |
| ISBN |
9780192572769 (electronic book) |
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0192572768 (electronic book) |
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0198835841 |
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9780198835844 |
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