Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Agricultural seasonal unemployment, the standard of living, and women's work, 1690–1860
- 2 Social relations – the decline of service
- 3 Social relations – the poor law
- 4 Enclosure and employment – the social consequences of enclosure
- 5 The decline of apprenticeship
- 6 The apprenticeship of women
- 7 The family
- 8 Thomas Hardy, rural Dorset, and the family
- Appendix: yearly wages
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time 2
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Agricultural seasonal unemployment, the standard of living, and women's work, 1690–1860
- 2 Social relations – the decline of service
- 3 Social relations – the poor law
- 4 Enclosure and employment – the social consequences of enclosure
- 5 The decline of apprenticeship
- 6 The apprenticeship of women
- 7 The family
- 8 Thomas Hardy, rural Dorset, and the family
- Appendix: yearly wages
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time 2
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- Annals of the Labouring PoorSocial Change and Agrarian England, 1660–1900, pp. 455 - 464Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985