Farm-workers: A Social and Economic History, 1770-1980 by Alan Armstrong
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Farm-workers
Summary
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.
Farm-workers Summary
Table of Contents
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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GOR002067683
9780713443912
071344391X
Farm-workers: A Social and Economic History, 1770-1980 by Alan Armstrong
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Batsford Ltd
19880105
320
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