Overview
- Expands and builds upon the recent research on gender, class and farm labour in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Presents a national picture alongside a more nuanced regional and local approach, based upon substantial original archival research.
- Portrays an image of farm workers which moves beyond the historical representation of them as slow, backward and homogenous, exploring the real working life and mind-set of these workers.
- Utilises a range of quantitative and qualitative sources allowing for a statistical overview to be considered alongside how workers viewed and felt about their work in their own words.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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The Victorian And Edwardian Farmworker
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The Farmworker in the Century After 1914
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Book Title: Working the Land
Book Subtitle: A History of the Farmworker in England from 1850 to the Present Day
Authors: Nicola Verdon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-31674-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30439-0Published: 20 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31674-5Published: 22 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 284
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Labor History, Modern History