The regulation and organisation of the trade in indentured servants for the American colonies in London, 1645-1718, and the career of William Haveland, emigration agent
Human migration is arguably the most important historical-geographical process. It is universal and continual and has been one of the leading elements in the accelerating transformation of the world since the fifteenth centuly. It has taken many forms and this study is concerned with one form of bound labour migration, the migration of indentured servants from London to England's island and mainland colonies in America in the period between the 1645 Ordinance of Parliament against child stealing and the Transportation Act of 1718. The trade in indentured servants was characterised by increasing regulation in this period and this change is examined with reference to modern theories of economic regulation. It is clear that public-interest theory explains only a small part of this regulation and that interest-group theories provide much better explanations. The regulation of the trade was effected through punitive regulation in the courts, and preventative regulation through the development of various forms of servant registration. The purpose of regulation came to be concerned with the profit of the holders of the registration patent and the protection of merchants rather than the protection of servants. However,
Wareing, John
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The regulation and organisation of the trade in indentured servants for the American colonies in London, 1645-1718, and the career of William Haveland, emigration agent. Human migration is arguably the most important historical-geographical process. It is universal and continual and has been one of the leading elements in the accelerating transformation of the world since the fifteenth centuly. It has taken many forms and this study is concerned with one form of bound labour migration, the migration of indentured servants from London to England's island and mainland colonies in America in the period between the 1645 Ordinance of Parliament against child stealing and the Transportation Act of 1718. The trade in indentured servants was characterised by increasing regulation in this period and this change is examined with reference to modern theories of economic regulation. It is clear that public-interest theory explains only a small part of this regulation and that interest-group theories provide much better explanations. The regulation of the trade was effected through punitive regulation in the courts, and preventative regulation through the development of various forms of servant registration. The purpose of regulation came to be concerned with the profit of the holders of the registration patent and the protection of merchants rather than the protection of servants. However,
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