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.
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Verlagsort
Illustrationen
illustrations, map, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 230 mm
Breite: 150 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7134-4391-2 (9780713443912)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
