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Economic Notes on English Agricultural Wages
Excerpt from Economic Notes on English Agricultural Wages In this little book I have tried to answer the question, whether it is possible to raise agricultural wages in England, without the advantages of the change being outweighed by disadvantageous consequences. More particularly, the argument is concerned with the policy of establishing minimum agricultural wage-rates by law. I have made no attempt in the following pages to gauge the poverty of the farm labourer or to estimate the distresses of his lot, except, indeed, in so far as a consideration of these things is essential to the economic argument. My reason for thus limiting the inquiry is a simple one. I believe that a demonstration ...
The precarious situation of agricultural wage laborers in Myanmar
To understand the effects of COVID-19, the political crisis, and other shocks on Myanmar’s agricultural wage laborers (those workers relying on casual labor in agriculture), we rely on data from three rounds of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey and two rounds of the Myanmar Agricultural Performance Survey, fielded in 2021 and 2022.
Working the Land
This book offers a new history of the farmworker in England from 1850 to the present day. It focuses on the paid worker, considering how the experiences of farm work – the work performed, wages earned and conditions of hiring – were shaped by gender, age and region. Combining data extracted from statistical sources with personal and autobiographical accounts, it places the individual farmworker back into a broader collective history. Beginning in the mid-Victorian era, when farmworkers were the most numerically significant occupational group in England, it considers the impact of economic, technological and social change on the scale and nature of farm work over the next hundred and fifty years, whilst also highlighting the continuation of some practices, including the use of casual and migrant workers to perform low-paid, seasonal work. Written in a lively and accessible manner, this book will appeal to those with an interest in rural history, gender history and modern British history.
