Emigration and the Labouring Poor - Australian Recruitment in Britain and Ireland, 1831-60

Robin Haines has analysed the origins, occupations, literacy, and mobilization of emigrants recruited in the UK on behalf of colonial legislatures. Her exploration of strict selection procedures shows that the symbiosis between the clergy, empire-minded philanthropic societies, and parishes, which combined to fund the emigrants' considerable pre-departure expenses, increased the opportunities for underemployed rural and domestic workers during an era of farm rationalization and industrial restructuring. Although poor, hybrid state and private funding enabled them to relocate to Australia where their skills were in demand.

List of contents

List of Tables - List of Maps - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - The Context - Who were Australia's Government-assisted Emigrants? - Recruiting in the Countryside - English Poor Law Recruitment - Irish Poor Law Recruitment - Promotion: Philanthropy, Commerce, and Colonization - Experiments in Charitable Cooperation - Scottish Recruitment: the Highland and Island Emigration Society - 'Noughting will give me more pleasure than to send for you' - Endnotes - Appendices - Bibliography - Index

Summary

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.

Report

'...a rich and detailed work, with much to say to scholars in a range of fields.' - Elizabeth Elbourne, Agricultural History

Product details

• Authors: Robin F Haines, Robin F. Haines
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780333660492
• ISBN: 978-0-333-66049-2
• No. of pages: 397
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 224 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 653 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 397 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Internationales Recht, Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LAW / International, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain