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Negotiating development : African farmers and colonial experts at the Office du Niger, 1920-1960
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ISBN: 0325070466 0325070458 0852556993 0852556497 9780325070452 Year: 2002 Publisher: Portsmouth (N.H.) : Heinemann,

The allotment movement in England, 1793-1873
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ISBN: 1782044493 1843836432 1846150159 9786610545643 128054564X 0585490880 0861932560 Year: 2002 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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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.

Rural women workers in nineteenth-century England : gender, work and wages
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ISBN: 0851159060 9786610545070 1280545070 1846151503 Year: 2002 Publisher: Rochester, NY : Boydell Press,

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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servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England.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.

The words of César Chávez
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ISBN: 1585449628 9781585449620 1585441694 9781585441693 1585441708 9781585441709 Year: 2002 Publisher: College Station Texas A & M University Press

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