International labour migration
Subtitle: historical perspectives
By: edited by Shula Marks and Peter Richardson.
Contributors: Marks, Shula.; Richardson, Peter.
Series: Commonwealth papers ;; 24
Publisher: Published for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies by M. Temple Smith
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Hounslow, Middlesex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Migrant labor -- History; Alien labor -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: English indentured servants and the Trans-Atlantic colonial economy / David Souden; title: Why did contract labour not work in the nineteenth-century United States? / Charlotte Erickson; title: The Cornish diaspora of the nineteenth century / Gill Burke; title: Into servitude / Hugh Tinker; title: The importation of British Indians into Surinam (Dutch Guiana), 1873-1916 / Pieter Emmer; title: The nature and origins of Pacific Islands labour migration to Queensland, 1863-1906 / Adrian Graves; title: Capitalism and migrant labour in southern Africa / Martin Legassick and Francine de Clercq; title: Coolies, peasants, and proletarians / Peter Richardson; title: The political economy of labour migration to settler societies / Donald Denoon; title: The imperial workplace / Colin Newbury.