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Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness - Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550-1780 (Hardcover, New)
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Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness - Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550-1780 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the
energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking 2011 study
of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living,
Craig Muldrew uses empirical research to present a much fuller
account of the interrelationship between consumption, living
standards and work in the early modern English economy than has
previously existed. The book integrates labourers into a study of
the wider economy and engages with the history of food as an energy
source and its importance to working life, the social complexity of
family earnings, and the concept of the 'industrious revolution'.
It argues that 'industriousness' was as much the result of ideology
and labour markets as labourers' household consumption. Linking
this with ideas about the social order of early modern England, the
author demonstrates that bread, beer and meat were the petrol of
this world, and a springboard for economic change.
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