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‘The idle and the drunken won't do there’: Poverty, the new poor law and nineteenth‐century government‐assisted emigration to Australia from the United KingdomFootnote∗

Robin Haines Flinders University of South Australia,
Pages 1-21 | Published online: 29 Sep 2008

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  • ∗ Thanks to members of the Economic History Seminar at the University of New South Wales and the History Seminar at Flinders University for their constructive criticisms of earlier versions of this paper; to Ralph Shlomowitz for his detailed responses: to the Australian Research Council for funding the research and writing; and to two anonymous referees whose criticisms led to a radical reshaping of the article.

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