Artisans abroad British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815-1870
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 Rev...
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Oxford, England :
Oxford University Press
[2023]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
