Farmworkers : a social and economic history, 1770-1980

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Farmworkers : a social and economic history, 1770-1980

Alan Armstrong

B.T. Batsford, 1988

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Includes bibliography and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book seeks to distil the experience of some 5 million people over two centuries in four contexts - the home and the workplace, the local community and the wider social environment, in order to produce a picture of farming life as experienced by individual workers and their families.

目次

  • Introduction - the agricultural labour force in the later 18th century
  • the impact of war 1793-1815
  • labour in agriculture 1815-50
  • the dawn of a new era? farmworkers during the "Golden Age" of agriculture
  • the "affluent" farmworker, 1873-95
  • marking time - 1896-1914
  • the Great War and its aftermath - 1914-20
  • poverty and progress between the wars
  • digging for victory - 1939-45
  • in pursuit of "a place in the sun"
  • retrospect.

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