Author: Great Britain. Overseas Settlement Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Great Britain. Oversea Settlement Board
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Bonnie White
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030133486
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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This book examines the British government’s response to the ‘superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas migration. The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women (SOSBW) was created in 1919 to facilitate the transportation of female migrants to the former white settler colonies. To do so, the SOSBW worked with various domestic and dominion groups to find the most suitable women for migration, while also meeting the dominions’ demands for specific types of workers, particularly women for work in domestic service. While the Society initially aimed to meet its original mandate, it gradually developed its own vision of empire settlement and refocused its efforts on aiding the migration of educated and trained women who were looking for new, modern, and professional work opportunities abroad.

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1218

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Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board
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Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
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Author: Stephen Constantine
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152616292X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Professor Drummond's two pioneering studies, British Economic Policy and the Empire 1919-1939, 1972, and Imperial Economic Policy 1917-1939, 1974, helped to revive interest in Empire migration and other aspects of inter-war imperial economic history. This book concentrates upon the attempts to promote state-assisted migration in the post-First World War period particularly associated with the Empire Settlement Act of 1922. It examines the background to these new emigration experiments, the development of plans for both individual and family migration, as well as the specific schemes for the settlement of ex-servicemen and of women. Varying degrees of encouragement, acquiescence and resistance with which they were received in the dominions, are discussed. After the First World War there was a striking reorientation of state policy on emigration from the United Kingdom. A state-assisted emigration scheme for ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen, operating from 1919 to 1922, was followed by an Empire Settlement Act, passed in 1922. This made significant British state funding available for assisted emigration and overseas land settlement in British Empire countries. Foremost amongst the achievements of the high-minded imperial projects was the free-passage scheme for ex-servicemen and women which operated between 1919 and 1922 under the auspices of the Oversea Settlement Committee. Cheap passages were considered as one of the prime factors in stimulating the flow of migration, particularly in the case of single women. The research represented here makes a significant contribution to the social histories of these states as well as of the United Kingdom.

Author: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1150

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Author: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board
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Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1382

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