ID - 883814 TI - Annals of the labouring poor: social change and agrarian England, 1660-1900 PY - 1985 VL - 2 SN - 0521245486 0521335582 0511599447 9780521245487 9780511599446 9780521335584 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Travailleurs agricoles KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Great Britain KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Rural conditions KW - Social conditions. KW - Conditions rurales KW - Conditions sociales KW - -History KW - Social conditions KW - -Agricultural workers KW - Farm labor KW - Farm laborers KW - Farm workers KW - Farmhands KW - Farmworkers KW - Employees KW - History KW - England KW - Agricultural workers KW - Démographie KW - Demography KW - Arts and Humanities KW - 3 <09> <420> "16/18" KW - 3 <09> <420> "16/18" Sociale geschiedenis--Engeland--?"16/18" KW - Sociale geschiedenis--Engeland--?"16/18" KW - Agricultural laborers - - History - Great Britain KW - -Great Britain - Social conditions KW - ANGLETERRE KW - AGRICULTEURS KW - FAMILLES KW - CONDITIONS SOCIALES KW - -Great Britain UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:883814 AB - 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. ER -