This book offers a new history of the farmworker in England from
1850 to the present day. It focuses on the paid worker, considering
how the experiences of farm work - the work performed, wages earned
and conditions of hiring - were shaped by gender, age and region.
Combining data extracted from statistical sources with personal and
autobiographical accounts, it places the individual farmworker back
into a broader collective history. Beginning in the mid-Victorian
era, when farmworkers were the most numerically significant
occupational group in England, it considers the impact of economic,
technological and social change on the scale and nature of farm
work over the next hundred and fifty years, whilst also
highlighting the continuation of some practices, including the use
of casual and migrant workers to perform low-paid, seasonal work.
Written in a lively and accessible manner, this book will appeal to
those with an interest in rural history, gender history and modern
British history.
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