Excerpt from The Farm Labourer: The History of a Modern Problem They had come into being about '1760. It was then that economic changes set in which, with the assistance of an ignorant ruling class, transformed a prosperous and vigorous peasantry into a mere proletariat, ever on the verge of pauperism. Before that date, the labourer had possessed a fair measure of independence, and had lived in considerable comfort, owing to the opportunities of farming on his own account. It is true that his independent husbandry was on a ...
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Excerpt from The Farm Labourer: The History of a Modern Problem They had come into being about '1760. It was then that economic changes set in which, with the assistance of an ignorant ruling class, transformed a prosperous and vigorous peasantry into a mere proletariat, ever on the verge of pauperism. Before that date, the labourer had possessed a fair measure of independence, and had lived in considerable comfort, owing to the opportunities of farming on his own account. It is true that his independent husbandry was on a small scale, but it had at least supplied him with an abundance of cheap food, and had prevented him from being wholly dependent on wages and a master. Above all, the possibility of working for himself gave a zest to life, and the career thus Open even to the poorest fostered a thrifty, hard-working and self-respecting class. The subsequent depression, though induced by various causes, was due primarily to the agricultural revolution. The loss of the commons by enclosure and the absorption of small holdings and farms into the large units necessary to the now profitable com-growing spelt ruin for the small man. Changes in the industrial economy of the nation, together with bad legislation, aggravated his difficulties. Even by the close of the eighteenth century, or but thirty or forty years after the depression set in, the land problem, the housing problem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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