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Harvesters and Harvesting 1840-1900 - A Study of the Rural Proletariat (Hardcover)
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Harvesters and Harvesting 1840-1900 - A Study of the Rural Proletariat (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
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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.
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