Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870 1st Edition Fabrice Bensimon

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198835841
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198835844
• Author(s): Fabrice Bensimon

Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways. These men and women thereby contributed significantly to the industrial take-off in continental Europe. Artisans Abroad examines the lives and trajectories of these workers who emigrated from manufacturing centres in Britain to France, Belgium, Germany, and other countries, considering their mobilities, their culture, their politics, and their relations with the local populations. Fabrice Bensimon reminds us that the British economy was not just oriented towards the Empire and the USA, but also towards the continent, long before the European Union and Brexit, and shows the critical role played by migrant workers in the Industrial Revolution. Artisans Abroad is the first social and cultural history of this forgotten migration.

Table contents:

Introduction

1. ‘Taking their labour and art to the best market’: The Political Economy of British Emigration to the Continent

2. ‘The three pricipal manufactories at Paris are conducted by Englishmen’: The Sectors of Workers’ Emigration

3. The Gender of Migration: Women, Children, and Textiles across the Channel

4. ‘Not one of us […] is able to speak more than a few words of the language’: Language, Cultural Practices, and Religion

5. ‘Driven from his native land to seek employment under a foreign despotism’: Associations, Unions, and Continental Chartism

6. ‘A bas les Anglais!’: Integration and Rejection

Conclusion

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