Emigration and the Labouring Poor

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Robin F. Haines

   Pages 1-6

3. The Context

   • Robin F. Haines

   Pages 7-20

4. Who Were Australia’s Government-Assisted Emigrants?

   • Robin F. Haines

   Pages 21-76

5. Recruiting in the Countryside

   • Robin F. Haines

   Pages 77-110

6. English Poor Law Recruitment

   • Robin F. Haines

   Pages 111-141

7. Irish Poor Law Recruitment

   • Robin F. Haines

   Pages 142-165

8. Promotion: Philanthropy, Commerce, and Colonization

   • Robin F. Haines

   Pages 166-195

9. Experiments in Charitable Cooperation

   • Robin F. Haines

   Pages 196-219

10. Scottish Recruitment: The Highland and Island Emigration Society

    • Robin F. Haines

    Pages 220-249

11. ‘Noughting will give me more plesure than to send for you’

    • Robin F. Haines

    Pages 250-260

12. Back Matter

    Pages 261-397

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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.

• Australia
• bibliography
• Britain
• colonization
• commerce
• empire
• English
• Great Britain
• Ireland
• knowledge
• literacy
• migrant
• migrants
• migration
• society

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

• Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

  Robin F. Haines

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