Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870
Autor Fabrice Bensimonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 feb 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198835844
ISBN-10: 0198835841
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 70 black and white illustrations/maps/tables
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198835841
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 70 black and white illustrations/maps/tables
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Artisans Abroad makes a powerful intervention not only to the social history of workers' lives, but also to the economic history of European industrialisation and is set to become essential reading.
In a new book, Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870, Professor Fabrice Bensimon provides a fascinating account of the men and women who made the journey and who played a decisive part in European industrialisation.
Technology has long been regarded as a key factor in comparative economic development, with the transfer of technology from Britain to France during the industrial revolution much studied as a paradigm case. While the export, adoption and adaptation of British machines, industrial espionage, and emigrant entrepreneurs have all been studied, the movement of workers who could set up and operate the new technologies has received much less attention. Fabrice Bensimon's excellent book fills this gap with an account of the textile workers who moved with the technology and helped to make it viable. Bensimon reminds us that skilled labour is always needed to make capital productive and that behind the network of recruiters were enterprising and plucky pioneer economic migrants. This book is essential reading for economic, social, global and business historians.
Lively, readable, and meticulously researched, Bensimon brings alive a history of European migration largely neglected by modern historians. By examining the lives of British migrants to the continent, Artisans Abroad makes a powerful intervention not only to the social history of workers' lives, but also to the economic history of European industrialisation and is set to become essential reading.
With rich detail and original sources, this book gives us a new picture of industrialisation by following the lives of British migrant workers and their families who helped spread it. A must read for European as much as British historians.
This meticulously researched and engagingly written book will be welcomed by all who are interested in the causes, manifestations and consequences of migration from Britain in the nineteenth century. In a ground-breaking transnational study of a neglected dimension of the British diaspora, the author trains a searching spotlight on the multi-layered story of labour migration to the European continent in a period of significant industrialisation.
Artisans Abroad is a major contribution to labour history. Bensimon argues for the significant role that tens of thousands of British migrant workers played in 19th century Europe. This book repositions the history of industrialisation with a rich selection of narratives of Britain migrant workers and their activities in Europe.
This is an original and scholarly study that carefully reveals the experiences of British labour migrants in continental Europe,...It nicely combines individual case studies, with some simple statistics and incisive interpretation, and provides a valuable addition to the literature on British migration systems.
This book in paving the way for new and exciting research agendas, and thus highlights its unique contribution to the histories of migration and industrialisation, as well as the global histories of business and labour.
Artisans Abroad is a much-needed study on British industrial migrants on the Continent, whose significance for the global history of industrialisation has curiously not matched the meagre scholarly interest in them so far.
Economic historians with wide interests will enjoy Artisans Abroad.
There is enough in his book to enjoy from a historical perspective alone.
Between the individual biographies of remarkable entrepreneurs or craftsmen and a collective biography of men, women and children at work, the book thus offers a fragment of Franco-British social history of the 19th century.
The book is very much situated within labour history and builds upon developments in the field. However, it is also much more than this, incorporating methodologies from social and cultural history as well as migration studies. Bensimon aims to move away from the traditional accounts of industrial magnates and capital and instead uncover the experiences of 'the workers themselves'.
In a new book, Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870, Professor Fabrice Bensimon provides a fascinating account of the men and women who made the journey and who played a decisive part in European industrialisation.
Technology has long been regarded as a key factor in comparative economic development, with the transfer of technology from Britain to France during the industrial revolution much studied as a paradigm case. While the export, adoption and adaptation of British machines, industrial espionage, and emigrant entrepreneurs have all been studied, the movement of workers who could set up and operate the new technologies has received much less attention. Fabrice Bensimon's excellent book fills this gap with an account of the textile workers who moved with the technology and helped to make it viable. Bensimon reminds us that skilled labour is always needed to make capital productive and that behind the network of recruiters were enterprising and plucky pioneer economic migrants. This book is essential reading for economic, social, global and business historians.
Lively, readable, and meticulously researched, Bensimon brings alive a history of European migration largely neglected by modern historians. By examining the lives of British migrants to the continent, Artisans Abroad makes a powerful intervention not only to the social history of workers' lives, but also to the economic history of European industrialisation and is set to become essential reading.
With rich detail and original sources, this book gives us a new picture of industrialisation by following the lives of British migrant workers and their families who helped spread it. A must read for European as much as British historians.
This meticulously researched and engagingly written book will be welcomed by all who are interested in the causes, manifestations and consequences of migration from Britain in the nineteenth century. In a ground-breaking transnational study of a neglected dimension of the British diaspora, the author trains a searching spotlight on the multi-layered story of labour migration to the European continent in a period of significant industrialisation.
Artisans Abroad is a major contribution to labour history. Bensimon argues for the significant role that tens of thousands of British migrant workers played in 19th century Europe. This book repositions the history of industrialisation with a rich selection of narratives of Britain migrant workers and their activities in Europe.
This is an original and scholarly study that carefully reveals the experiences of British labour migrants in continental Europe,...It nicely combines individual case studies, with some simple statistics and incisive interpretation, and provides a valuable addition to the literature on British migration systems.
This book in paving the way for new and exciting research agendas, and thus highlights its unique contribution to the histories of migration and industrialisation, as well as the global histories of business and labour.
Artisans Abroad is a much-needed study on British industrial migrants on the Continent, whose significance for the global history of industrialisation has curiously not matched the meagre scholarly interest in them so far.
Economic historians with wide interests will enjoy Artisans Abroad.
There is enough in his book to enjoy from a historical perspective alone.
Between the individual biographies of remarkable entrepreneurs or craftsmen and a collective biography of men, women and children at work, the book thus offers a fragment of Franco-British social history of the 19th century.
The book is very much situated within labour history and builds upon developments in the field. However, it is also much more than this, incorporating methodologies from social and cultural history as well as migration studies. Bensimon aims to move away from the traditional accounts of industrial magnates and capital and instead uncover the experiences of 'the workers themselves'.
Notă biografică
Fabrice Bensimon is a historian of the nineteenth century based at Sorbonne Université.