LEADER 04121nam 2200505 450 001 9910648572703321 005 20230427051225.0 010 $a0-19-187330-6 010 $a0-19-257276-8 010 $a0-19-257277-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7184804 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7184804 035 $a(CKB)26037394700041 035 $a(PPN)27060927X 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926037394700041 100 $a20230427d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArtisans abroad $eBritish migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815-1870 /$fFabrice Bensimon 210 1$aOxford, England :$cOxford University Press,$d[2023] 210 4$d©2023 215 $a1 online resource (285 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Bensimon, Fabrice Artisans Abroad Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2023 9780198835844 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aBetween 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. 606 $aEconomic history 606 $aForeign workers, British 607 $aEurope$xEconomic conditions$y19th century 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aEconomic history. 615 0$aForeign workers, British. 676 $a330.9 700 $aBensimon$b Fabrice$0989840 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910648572703321 996 $aArtisans Abroad$93028904 997 $aUNINA