Land and Labour

The Potters’ Emigration Society, 1844-51

Martin Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Anglo-American History)

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Manchester University Press
28 August 2024

Land and Labour provides the first full-length history of the Potters' Emigration Society, the controversial trade union scheme designed to solve the problems of surplus labour by changing workers into farmers on land acquired in frontier Wisconsin. The book is based on intensive research into British and American newspapers, passenger lists, census, manuscript, and genealogical sources. After tracing the scheme's industrial origins and founding in the Potteries, it examines the migration and settlement process, expansion to other trades and areas, and finally the circumstances that led to its demise in 1851. Despite the Society's failure, the history offers unique insight into working-class dreams of landed independence in the American West and into the complex and contingent character of nineteenth-century emigration.

By: Martin Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Anglo-American History)
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781526171351
ISBN 10: 152617135X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1 Industrial origins 2 1844: An emigration plan 3 1845–6: Finding land 4 1847–8: Settling the land 5 1849: Expansion and scrutiny 6 1850–1: Crisis and decline Conclusion -- .

Martin Crawford is Emeritus Professor of Anglo-American History at Keele University