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Economic Factors and Internal Migration

The Case of Nineteenth-Century England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Kevin McQuillan
Kevin McQuillan*
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University of Western Ontario
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Internal migration plays an important role in the redistribution of the population which normally accompanies industrialization. This was clearly the case in nineteenth-century England, where a major redistribution of the population occurred during the Industrial Revolution. Despite its potential theoretical importance, however, relatively little attention has been paid to the dynamics of internal migration in this classic example of industrialization.

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Social Science History , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , Fall 1980, pp. 479 - 499
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1980

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