Title Annals of the labouring poor : social change and agrarian England, 1660-1900 / K.D.M. Snell

Edition First paperback edition Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985

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Description ix, 464 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 2 Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 2 Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Agricultural seasonal unemployment, the standard of living, and women's work, 1690-1860 -- 2. Social relations - the decline of service -- 3. Social relations - the poor law -- 4. Enclosure and employment - the social consequences of enclosure -- 5. The decline of apprenticeship -- 6. The apprenticeship of women -- 7. The family -- 8. Thomas Hardy, rural Dorset, and the family -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index Analysis England Rural regions Poor persons Social conditions, 1660-1900 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 418-453 Subject Agricultural laborers -- England -- History. Agricultural laborers -- Great Britain -- History. Rural poor -- England -- History. Working class -- England -- History. SUBJECT England -- Rural conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103195 England -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043311 Great Britain -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056940 LC no. 84021351 ISBN 0521245486 0521335582 (paperback)

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