Land and Labour: The Potters’ Emigration Society, 1844-51

This book is a history of the Potters’ Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significant industrial emigration scheme of its period.

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