Labour Colonies in North America
In Chapter 4, the author analyses the introduction of domestic labour colonies in the United States and Canada. Unlike Europe, permanent labour colonies for the general population of ‘idle poor’ were rejected. Instead they were either implemented temporarily at moments of crisis (post-WWI and the De...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803423.003.0004 |