The Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain During the Nineteenth Century.

Clapham, J. H.; Knowles, L. C. A.

doi:10.2307/2222821

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Who Were the Irish And Where Did They Go In Britain?1

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“…Since Adam Smith noted that the Irish accounted for most of the porters, coalheavers, and prostitutes in eighteenth-century London, conventional wisdom has had it that the Irish in Britain were overwhelmingly unskilled. 18 Certainly expert witnesses whose accounts appeared in the 1836 "Report on the State of the Irish Poor in Great Britain" viewed the Irish that way, and the 1851 census confirmed it with hard data. Agricultural laborers aside, that the vast majority of the Irish were in unskilled employment in 1851 can be readily documented for Liverpool, Leeds, and Bradford.…”

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The Impact of the Irish on British Labor Markets During the Industrial Revolution

Williamson

1986

J. Eco. History

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The Irish immigrations during the First Industrial Revolution serve to complicate any assessment of Britain's economic performance up to the 1850s. This paper estimates the size of the Irish immigrations and explores its impact on real wages, rural-urban migration, and industrialization. Using a general equilibrium model, the paper finds that the Irish did not play a significant role in accounting for rising inequality, lagging real wages, or rapid industrialization.

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