Out of the Hay and Into the Hops
Out of the Hay and Into the Hops

Author: Celia Cordle

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1907396039

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"Out of the Hay and into the Hops explores the history and development of hop cultivation in the Weald of Kent together with the marketing of this important crop in the Borough at Southwark (where a significant proportion of Wealden hops were sold). A picture emerges of the relationship between the two activities, as well as of the impact this rural industry had upon the lives of the people engaged in it. Dr Cordle draws extensively on personal accounts of hop work to evoke a way of life now lost for good. Oral history, together with evidence from farm books and other sources, records how the steady routine of hop ploughing and dung spreading, weeding and spraying contrasted with the bustle and excitement of hop picking (bringing in, as it did, many itinerant workers from outside the community to help with the harvest) and the anxious period of drying the crop. For hops, prey to the vagaries of weather and disease, needed much care and attention to bring them to fruition. In early times their cultivation provided work for more people than any other crop. The diverse processes of hop cultivation are examined within the wider context of events such as the advent of rail and the effects of war, as are changes to the working practices and technologies used, and their reception and implementation in the Weald. Meanwhile, in the Borough, an enclave of hop factors and merchants, whose interests sometimes conflicted with those of the hop growers, arose and then suffered decline. A full account of this trade is presented, including day-to-day working practices, links with the Weald, and the changes in hop marketing following Britain's entry into the European Economic Community. This book provides readers with a fascinating analysis of some three hundred years of hop history in the Weald and the Borough. Hops still grow in the Weald; in the Borough, the Le May facade and the gates of the Hop Exchange are reminders of former trade."--Book description.

Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture .. [electronic Resource]
Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture .. [electronic Resource]

Author: Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781014028990

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Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-century England
Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-century England

Author: Nicola Verdon

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780851159065

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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 barterand 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.

Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture
Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture

Author: Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2015-08-21

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9781297919527

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Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture
Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture

Author: Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780259550884

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Excerpt from Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty For these reasons I selected a single district in each county in which to prosecute the inquiry directed by the Commission, a plan which I adhered to, except in the case of Devonshire, where a particular question, that of apprenticeship, induced me to divide my time, spent in that county, between two districts at some little distance from each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

Author: Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain)

Publisher:

Published: 1903

Total Pages: 926

ISBN-13:

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Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.