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Annals of the Labouring Poor

Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-1900

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Paperback | 1 June 1987

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This collection of inter-connected essays is concerned with the impact of social and economic change upon the rural labouring poor and artisans in England, and combines a sensitive understanding of their social priorities with innovative quantitative analysis. It is based on an impressive range of sources, and its particular significance arises from the pioneering use made of a largely neglected archival source - settlement records - to address questions of central importance in English social and economic history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Levels of employment, wage rates, poor relief, the sexual division of labour, the social consequences of enclosure, the decline of farm service and traditional apprenticeship, and th equality of family life are amongst the issues discussed in a profound re-assessment of a perennial problem: the standard of living (in its widest sense) of the labouring poor during the period of industrialisation. The author's conclusions challenge much of the prevailing orthodoxy, and his extensive use of literary and attitudinal material is closely integrated with the quantitative restatement of an interpretation that owes much to the older tradition of the Hammonds' Village Labourer.

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'Snell's work represents both a weighty and an impressive addition to the literature. It will become required reading for all students of British rural society.' The Times Higher Education Supplement 'It all adds up to a historical tour de force, particularly valuable for its long perspective and for its many stimulating ideas ... It deserves to be read, and read carefully, by those who wish to understand better the growth of our modern society.' The Times Literary Supplement

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Social Classes

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Agricultural seasonal unemployment, the standard of living, and women's work, 1690-1860	p. 15
Social relations - the decline of service	p. 67
Social relations - the poor law	p. 104
Enclosure and employment - the social consequences of enclosure	p. 138
The decline of apprenticeship	p. 228
The apprenticeship of women	p. 270
The family	p. 320
Thomas Hardy, rural Dorset, and the family	p. 374
Yearly wages	p. 411
Bibliography	p. 418
Index	p. 455
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Annals of the Labouring Poor

Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-1900

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