THE OCCUPATIONS OF ENGLISH IMMIGRANTS TO THE UNITED-STATES, 1836-1853

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: COHN, RL
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700010809
• 发表日期: 1992
• 页码: 377-387
• 关键词: british-isles; emigration; usa; mortality

摘要

This article examines the recent view that economic distress was not an important cause of English immigration before 1860. Demographic information is used to show that characteristics of males on suspect passenger lists (those that listed only laborers) matched those of laborers on other lists. Based on this result and other information, laborers appear to be the dominant group of immigrants. Support is thus provided for the view that distress was the most important cause of immigration, even though many other immigrants were not fleeing economic distress.