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Farmers --- Agricultural laborers --- Agricultural colonies --- Agriculteurs --- Travailleurs agricoles --- Colonies agricoles --- History --- Histoire --- Mali. --- Mali --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Labor colonies --- Mali (Republic). --- Office du Niger --- History. --- Employees --- Colonies --- Land settlement --- Agricultural colonies. --- Agricultural laborers.
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The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision was the most important counterweight to the pressures. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century allotment movement, providing new data on the chronology of the movement and on the number, geographical distribution, size, rents, cultivation yields and effect on living standards of allotments, showing how the movement brought the culture of the rural labouring poor more closely into line with the mainstream values of respectable mid-Victorian England. This book casts new light on central aspects of early and mid-nineteenth-century social and economic history, agriculture and rural society. JEREMY BURCHARDT is lecturer in Rural History, University of Reading.
Allotment of land --- Working-men's gardens --- Rural poor --- Agricultural laborers --- Cultivation of vacant lots --- Detroit plan --- Potato patches --- Vacant-lot cultivation --- Gardens --- Community gardens --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Employees --- Rural poverty --- Poor --- Land, Allotment of --- Agriculture and state --- Land tenure --- Part-time farming --- History. --- History --- Economic conditions --- Labourers' Friend Society (London, England) --- England --- Rural conditions.
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The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England. The roles village women performed in the informal rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting systems of barter and exchange) are also assessed. Changes in women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the rural labouring household is established as a critical part of family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the Rural History Centre, University of Reading.
Agricultural laborers --- Rural women --- Women employees --- Women --- History --- Employment --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Employees --- Female employees --- Women workers --- Working women --- Workingwomen --- Day Labourers. --- Domestic Workers. --- Economic Opportunities. --- Family Economy. --- Family Subsistence. --- Farm Servants. --- Marital Status. --- Nineteenth-Century England. --- Rural Women Workers.
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A collection of speeches and writings by the Mexican American labor activist and head of the United Farm Workers.
Discourse analysis. --- Persuasion (Rhetoric) --- Labor leaders --- Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers. --- Migrant agricultural laborers --- Mexican American labor union members. --- Discourse analysis --- Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers --- Mexican American labor union members --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Labor union members, Mexican American --- Labor unions --- Labor union members --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- Agricultural laborers --- Migrant labor --- Migrant agricultural laborers, Mexican American --- Labor movement leaders --- Leaders, Labor --- Social reformers --- Rhetoric --- Forensics (Public speaking) --- Oratory --- Mexican American membership --- Chavez, Cesar, --- Chavez, Cesar Estrada, --- Oratory. --- United Farm Workers --- United Farm Workers Organizing Committee --- United Farm Workers of America --- UFW --- United Farmworkers --- Unión de Trabajadores Campesinos --- History --- E-books
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