Labour Migration in England, 1800-1850 |
Contents
THE EARLY VILLAGE FACTORIES AND PARISH | 20 |
INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION and Migration | 35 |
The Woollen and Worsted Industries | 42 |
The Minor Textile Industries | 49 |
The Coal and Iron Industries | 55 |
MUSHROOM TOWNGROWTH AND AGRARIAN | 62 |
SURPLUS LABOUR AND THE SETTLEMENT QUESTION | 81 |
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1st Ann 2nd Ann agricultural counties agricultural labourers apprenticeship Bristol Britain cause Census centres Cheshire coal Cobbett cotton districts cotton industry decline decreases depression Derbyshire distress Divn early nineteenth century eighteenth century emigration employed employment enclosure England English especially factory facture families famine Glasgow growth handloom handloom weavers Hansard harvesters Highlands ibid immigration increase of population Irish influx iron Lancashire land Leicestershire Lincolnshire linen Liverpool London mainly Manchester manufacturing districts manufacturing towns ment Midland migration mill-owners mills movement Nottinghamshire number of Irish P.L.C. Rept parish apprentices pauperism period persons Poor Law poor removal railway Redford's relief reported Rept rural S.P. Ireland Samuel Oldknow scheme Scotland Scots seasonal migration settlement settlement laws shires short-distance Shropshire silk social South Wales Staffordshire surplus labour textile districts thousand tion vagrants villages wages West Country West Riding Wiltshire woollen workers Yorkshire