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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Listening to Emigrants: Evaluating Personal Testimony -- 2 Pulling Up the Roots: The Smorgasbord of Decision-making -- 3 Persuasion and Propaganda: Official Interventions and Reactions -- 4 Making the Transition: Leaving, Travelling, and Arriving -- 5 Building New Lives: Impressions and Experiences -- 6 Migrant Identities: Retention, Reconfiguration and Abandonment -- 7 Reverse Migration: Resettling and Reconnecting -- 8 Postscript: Commemorations, Mirror Images and Reflections -- Appendix 1: Table of Interviewees -- Appendix 2: Interviews from Other Collections -- Select Bibliography -- Endnotes.

Shortlisted for Scottish History Book of the Year at the Saltire Society Literary Awards 2013Scotland No More? taps into the need we all share ? to know who we are and where we come from. Scots have always been on the move, and from all quarters we are bombarded with evidence of interest in their historical comings and goings. Earlier eras have been well covered, but until now the story of Scotland's twentieth-century diaspora has remained largely untold.Scotland No More? considers the causes and consequences of the phenomenon, scrutinising the exodus and giving free rein to the voices of thos

AbstractLabour emigrants in the nineteenth century had ever-increasing access to a global employment market. Many of those who left Great Britain looked beyond Europe, to the British Empire and the United States. They took advantage of improvements in transportation, and followed a wide variety of occupations. Decisions to emigrate were often shaped by their involvement in trade unions and were based on concerns about living standards and working conditions. This study considers a selection of globetrotting British settlers and sojourners who went to Canada, the United States and Australia between 1815 and the 1880s. The article analyses the historiography of labour migration; carries out an empirical study constructed around four pieces of analytical scaffolding; and closes by identifying recurring threads in the multi-hued tapestry of labour emigration, highlighting how concerns and traditions about recruitment, wages and working conditions, which had emerged in the nineteenth century, created legacies that persisted into the period after the First World War.