A History of the English Agricultural Labourer, 1870-1920
Author : Frederick Ernest Green
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Frederick Ernest Green
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Ian H. Waller
Publisher :
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 9781907199592
Author : Nicola Verdon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1137316748
This book offers a new history of the farmworker in England from 1850 to the present day. It focuses on the paid worker, considering how the experiences of farm work – the work performed, wages earned and conditions of hiring – were shaped by gender, age and region. Combining data extracted from statistical sources with personal and autobiographical accounts, it places the individual farmworker back into a broader collective history. Beginning in the mid-Victorian era, when farmworkers were the most numerically significant occupational group in England, it considers the impact of economic, technological and social change on the scale and nature of farm work over the next hundred and fifty years, whilst also highlighting the continuation of some practices, including the use of casual and migrant workers to perform low-paid, seasonal work. Written in a lively and accessible manner, this book will appeal to those with an interest in rural history, gender history and modern British history.
Author : Wilhelm Hasbach
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Penelope McElwee
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 9781443887052
The life of the poor rural worker appears to have been one of unmitigated toil within an unequal society, a reality seldom endorsed in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The contemporary viewer wished to see visions of the idyllic golden landscapes of Merrie England peopled by happy contented workers. Members of the upper echelons of society, with their families all attired in fine silks and satins, look out at their audience from ornately framed canvases as individuals. Yet the rural poor, the rabble at the gates, the unseen workforce, who toiled at the behest of the Master, are virtually unknown. They have left few records. Enclosure came at a price. The Poorhouse beckoned. And still the agricultural labourer did virtually nothing, for most of the eighteenth century, to protest or rebel against the inequalities of his downtrodden existence.
Author : John Bailey Denton
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107038464
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.
Author : Mark Overton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521568593
This book is the first available survey of English agriculture between 1500 and 1850. It combines new evidence with recent findings from the specialist literature, to argue that the agricultural revolution took place in the century after 1750. Taking a broad view of agrarian change, the author begins with a description of sixteenth-century farming and an analysis of its regional structure. He then argues that the agricultural revolution consisted of two related transformations. The first was a transformation in output and productivity brought about by a complex set of changes in farming practice. The second was a transformation of the agrarian economy and society, including a series of related developments in marketing, landholding, field systems, property rights, enclosure and social relations. Written specifically for students, this book will be invaluable to anyone studying English economic and social history, or the history of agriculture.
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Labour
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Henry Rider Haggard
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Page : 688 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Agricultural laborers
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