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Author Morgan, David Hoseason, 1919-1980.

Title Harvesters and Harvesting 1840-1900 : a Study of the Rural Proletariat
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (227 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: Rural History ; v. 12
Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
Contents Cover page; Half title page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; CONTENTS; Series page ; EDITOR'S NOTE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 LOW FARMING TO HIGH; 2 THE HARVEST SCENE; 3 CROPS AND LABOUR; 4 CHILDREN'S LABOUR AND EDUCATION; 5 THE IRISH HARVESTERS; 6 THE ASSESSMENT OF HARVEST EARNINGS; 7 DISTRIBUTION AND METHODS OF HARVEST PAYMENTS; 8 SOCIAL DISCONTENT AND DISCORD; 9 HARVEST CUSTOMS; 10 CONCLUSION; APPENDIX A On Shocking Corn; Appendix B On 'Harvest Beer' and the Temperance Movement; Appendix C Settlement, Removal and Mobility
Appendix D Prices of Beer 1858 and 1889 and Some Consumer PricesGLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary "During the second half of the nineteenth century the enormous increase in agricultural production, unmatched by technical advance in harvesting, drew vast numbers of rural and migrant workers into the harvest that lasted from June to October. This book, first published in 1982, examines the technology, conditions and customs of the harvest and, through that, the life of the rural population of central England from the 1840s until the end of the century when hand tools finally gave way to mechanisation. The economic framework of the period in agriculture is set out and there flows a detailed analysis of hand tools and work methods in the harvest. The population of harvesters, agricultural labourers and their entire families, townspeople and the gangs of migrant workers are studied, as are the crops they harvested."--Provided by publisher
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Subject Agricultural laborers -- England -- History -- 19th century
Migrant agricultural laborers -- England -- History -- 19th century
Agriculture -- England -- History -- 19th century
Harvesting -- England -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Agricultural laborers
Agriculture
Harvesting
Migrant agricultural laborers
Rural conditions
SUBJECT England -- Rural conditions
Subject England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351720540
1351720546