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International labour migration : historical perspectives / edited by Shula Marks and Peter Richardson. - Hounslow, Middlesex : Published for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies by M. Temple Smith, 1984. - viii, 280 pages ; 23 cm. - Commonwealth papers ; 24 . - Commonwealth papers ; 24. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English indentured servants and the Trans-Atlantic colonial economy / David Souden -- Why did contract labour not work in the nineteenth-century United States? / Charlotte Erickson -- The Cornish diaspora of the nineteenth century / Gill Burke -- Into servitude / Hugh Tinker -- The importation of British Indians into Surinam (Dutch Guiana), 1873-1916 / Pieter Emmer -- The nature and origins of Pacific Islands labour migration to Queensland, 1863-1906 / Adrian Graves -- Capitalism and migrant labour in southern Africa / Martin Legassick and Francine de Clercq -- Coolies, peasants, and proletarians / Peter Richardson -- The political economy of labour migration to settler societies / Donald Denoon -- The imperial workplace / Colin Newbury.

ISBN: 0851172385 9780851172385

LCCN: 84133758

Nat. Bib. No.: GB8340874 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 008782982 Uk 005668272 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Migrant labor--History.
Foreign workers--History.
Travailleurs migrants--Histoire.
Travailleurs etrangers--Histoire.
Foreign workers.
Migrant labor.
Arbeitnehmer
Geschichte
Internationale Migration
Arbeidsmigratie.
Immigration law.
International labour law.

Subjects--Index Terms: Western world Migrant personnel, ca 1800-ca 1920

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: HD5855 / .I525 1984

Dewey Class. No.: 331.12/791