Land and Labour
Crawford, Martin (Emeritus Professor of Anglo-American History)
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 on the Wisconsin frontier. The brainchild of a Welsh-born trade unionist and editor, William Evans, the Potters' Emigration Society was the most widely discussed project of its kind in the era of mass migration. This boo...