British Workers in France, 1815-1848*

Bensimon, Fabrice

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“…The Industrial Revolution increased the demand for English artisans on the Continent, so after 1815 the outflow of workers, both legal and clandestine, resumed, raising concerns in England (Bensimon, 2011). Most were technicians who installed, maintained, and managed new equipment.…”

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Economic History: ‘An Isthmus Joining Two Great Continents’?

O'Grada

2020

SSRN Journal

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This paper offers (yet another) reflection on the history and current status of economic history. No other sub-discipline of economics or history has tried so hard to be loved as economic history. That love is unrequited, because economic history's problem is existential: it is an inherently interdisciplinary field. Economists and historians are interested in only small parts of what economic history should embrace. Some examples are given of how narrow views of the past the impoverish research. Not all is gloom and doom, however. The controversies economic history provokes and the insights it provides touch on issues that resonate and that will continue to do so.

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Economic History: ‘An Isthmus Joining Two Great Continents’?

O'Grada

2020

SSRN Journal

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“…These flashpoints must be understood in a context of economic crisis and revolutions in which various national groups were targeted and the rhetoric of national belonging was deployed in the struggle for limited employment. 43 By assessing commentary on British integration in print culture, social practices such as friendship and marriage, and specific incidents in which the fragility of integration was exposed, we can try to illuminate key aspects of the daily lives of British migrant workers in the European and 'British World' contexts.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue

Bensimon¹

2019

Cont. Change

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In the period 1815–1870, several thousand British workers and engineers went to the continent for work purposes, playing a decisive part in European industrialisation. Workers emigrated because they could market their skills at good value; or because their British employers sought to make the most of their technical lead by setting businesses up abroad, and by producing on the continent, they could avoid protective tariffs.Which social and cultural factors enabled British capital to flow to continental and indeed global enterprise, British skills to shape labour processes overseas, and British male and female labourers to seek and find overseas employment? This introduction to the Special Issue raises a series of questions on these flows. It asks what numbers went to the continent, in comparison with the large flows to the US and the British World. It addresses the legislative and economic aspects of these labour migrations and tries to relate these to the discussion on the supposed ‘high-wage economy’ of the British industrial revolution. It also focuses on the practicalities of migration. Last, it is also interested in the cultural, religious and associational life of the British migrants, as well as in the relations with the local populations.

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“…That system yielded workers so valuable that it was a crime for them to emigrate before the mid--1820s (Cookson 1994: 145;Bensimon 2011). …”

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Did Science Cause the Industrial Revolution?

Gráda

2016

Journal of Economic Literature

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The role of science and technology in the First Industrial Revolution is still contested. Some scholars, focusing on the textiles sector, argue that skilled and talented artisans with no scientific training were mainly responsible for the key inventions; others, with steam power in mind, hold that the links between science and the crucial inventions of the period were fundamental. Margaret Jacob has been a leading contributor to the debate for nearly four decades. The publication of her The First Knowledge Economy offers an opportunity to review the issues. (JEL J24, L26, N13, N73, O31, O33)

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British Workers in France, 1815-1848*

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Economic History: ‘An Isthmus Joining Two Great Continents’?

Economic History: ‘An Isthmus Joining Two Great Continents’?

Introduction to the Special Issue

Did Science Cause the Industrial Revolution?

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