The Changing Landscape of 'Labour': Work and Livestock in Post‐Second World War British Agriculture.
The article addresses the history of post-war specialization and standardization, and its impacts on the farm worker, in terms of labour, manpower and status, while acknowledging that this debate took different forms over the course of the century. It shows how, notwithstanding the profound structur...
| Publicado en: | History Vol. 104; no. 363; pp. 911 - 941 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2019
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| Sumario: | The article addresses the history of post-war specialization and standardization, and its impacts on the farm worker, in terms of labour, manpower and status, while acknowledging that this debate took different forms over the course of the century. It shows how, notwithstanding the profound structural changes in British agriculture, twentieth-century perceptions of labouring prestige associated with livestock husbandry retained continuity with earlier periods. |
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