My Ancestor was an Agricultural Labourer
Author : Ian H. Waller
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Page : 285 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 9781907199592
Author : Ian H. Waller
Publisher :
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 9781907199592
Author : Harry Stuart
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Greg Hall
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
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Increased Mechanization and the expansion of new markets transformed the face of American farming in the early decades of the twentieth century, especially in the American West. These changes demanded a new kind of agricultural worker--gone was the local farmhand, replaced by a cheap and temporary labor force of migrant and seasonal workers. Greg Hall's fascinating book analyzes how "harvest Wobblies," members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), organized these men, women, and sometimes children who had become so essential and yet so exploited on the farms of the West. Although harvest Wobblies worked in nearly all the western states, their stongholds were the Great Plains, California, and the Pacific Northwest, regions where harmers developed monocrop agriculture and where seasonal labor was indispensable come harvest time. Like their IWW brethren in logging camps and mines, the harvest Wobblies combined an effort to improve the lives of workers with harger revolutionary goals. Harvest Wobblies personified most of the indelible features of IWW membership: they were the militant casual laborers of the American West, riding the rails, living in hobo jungles, preaching revolution, and facing repression with innovative strategies, impassioned speech, humor, and song. Through trial and error, Wobbly organizers eventually implemented the idea of an industrial union in agriculture and helped the IWW to establish itself as a powerful force to be reckoned with by employers in the West. In tracing the rise and the eventual fall of the harvest Wobblies, Greg Hall examines the diverse and changing nature of the agricultural work force. He offers a social and cultural history of a union uniquely suited to organizing tens of thousands of migrant and seasonal workers. Harvest Wobblies will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in labor history, the American West, U.S. agricultural history, and the history of the IWW.
Author : Charles Whitehead (Dramatic and Miscellaneous Writer.)
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : V K Ramachandran
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
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ISBN : 9780009717550
Author : Penelope McElwee
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,25 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 : Harry Stuart
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Page : 114 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : K.S. Meenakshisundaram
Publisher : Archers & Elevators Publishing House
Page : pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release :
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9385640143
Author : Harry STUART (Minister of Oathlaw.)
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Charles David BRERETON (the Elder.)
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 1825
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