Annals of the Labouring Poor
by K. D. M. Snell
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (2)
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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K. D. M. Snell is Director of the Centre for English Local History a the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950 (2006), The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800-2000 (2002) and co-editor of Women, Work and Wages in England, show more 1600-1850 (2004). show less
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- Canonical title
- Annals of the Labouring Poor
- Original publication date
- 1985
- Important places
- England, UK
- Disambiguation notice
- Full title (1985): Annals of the labouring poor : social change and agrarian England, 1660-1900 / K.D.M. Snell.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.5 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by social and economic levels
- LCC
- HD1534 .S64 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Agriculture Agricultural classes
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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