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When working with stock, great pleasure can be derived from the actual participation of both man and animal in what should be a collaborative exercise . . . Always working with stock calls for a deep understanding, a kind, firm attitude and a quick, intelligent reaction. 1 The farm workforce . . . was far from being an undifferentiated mass of John Hodges. Although the national census of 1901 was the first to acknowledge the major divisions . . . even the divisions of 1901 -shepherds, horsemen, cowmen and labourers -conceal the gradations of skill and prestige attached to these different jobs. 2 Through debate, within detailed analyses and local studies and across broad economic surveys of farm incomes and variable wages, agricultural historians have worked since the 1950s to establish that nineteenth-century British farms large and small were complex sites of interconnected, mixed production. They were also the site of (often contested) stratified skill, of labour hired in service and of contracts (casual, seasonal and annual), that supported farming across the regions. Alun Howkins, and more recently Nicola Verdon, in Working the Land, have asked to what extent this model and its

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Author

SAYER, KAREN

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley (ISSN 0018-2648)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)