Routledge Revivals: Village Life and Labour (1975)

Raphael Samuel

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138213548
• eBook ISBN: 9781315447988
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

First published in 1975, this volume aims to direct attention at a number of aspects of the lives and occupations of village labourers in the nineteenth-century that have been little examined by historians outside of agriculture. Some of the factors examined include the labourer's gender, whether they lived in 'closed' or 'open' villages and what they worked at during the different seasons of the year. The author examines a range of occupations that have previously been ignored as too local to show up in national statistics or too short-lived to rank as occupations at all as well as sources of 'secondary' income. The analysis of all of these factors in related to the seasonal cycle of field labour and harvests. The central focus is on the cottage economy and the manifold contrivances by which labouring families attempted to keep themselves afloat.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on contributors
• General editor’s introduction : people’s history
• Acknowledgments
• Part 1 Village labour
• Part 2 The place of harvesters in nineteenth-century village life
• Part 3 Country work girls in nineteenth-century England
• Part 4 ‘Quarry roughs’: life and labour in Headington Quarry, 1860–1920. An essay in oral history
• Subject index
• Index of places