Emigration and the Labouring Poor
Robin F. Haines
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997
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Drawing on analysis of the origins, occupations, literacy, and mobilization of emigrants recruited in the UK on behalf of colonial legislatures, this work demonstrates how a variety of factors combined to increase the opportunities for underemployed rural and domestic workers, from 1831 to 1860.
- ISBN-13
- 9780333660492
- ISBN-10
- 0333660498
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 1997
- Publication date
- 1997-06-18
- Pages
- 397
- Dimensions
- 216x140x