{"product_id":"migrant-labour-in-europe-1600-1900","title":"Migrant Labour in Europe, 1600–1900","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMigrant Labour in Europe\u003c\/em\u003e (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services. The author identifies seven major systems of migrant labour: the North Sea System (mainly Westphalian workers heading for the German and Dutch North Sea Coast and Walloon\/French workers bound for the Belgian and Zeeland coasts); the area between London and the Humber; the Paris Basin; Provence, Languedoc and Catalonia; Castile; Piedmont; and central Italy with Corsica. A detailed study of the first of these systems, tracing its development and changes, is brought into a synchronic relation with data for the other regions. The evidence shows major waves of immigration in the seventeenth century, and a rapid diminution of migratory labour to the North Sea in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, a time when new ‘pull areas’ were created by the expanding industrial complexes of Germany and labour began to come in from areas outside Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236848259416,"sku":"9781032368436","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032368436_15234e64-d2b3-4637-b5f3-deb3015cb31c.jpg?v=1777276816","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/migrant-labour-in-europe-1600-1900","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}