Land and Labour : The Potters' Emigration Society, 1844-51 / Martin Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chartism.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book is a history of the Potters' Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significant industrial emigration scheme of its period.

Contents:

Front matter

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Epigraph

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Maps

Introduction

Industrial origins

1844: An emigration plan

1845-6: Finding land

1847-8: Settling the land

1849: Expansion and scrutiny

1850-1: Crisis and decline

Conclusion

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526188151

1526188155

9781526171344

1526171341

9781526171368

1526171368

OCLC:

1436831110