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The village labourer, 1760-1832
John Lawrence Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond
Enclosure enriched the landlords and stripped the poor of their common rights. The Hammonds trace the English village from before enclosure through its transformation, showing what the labourer lost between 1760 and 1832. A landmark of social history, passionate and thoroughly documented. Understand the human cost of remaking a countryside. The definitive account of the dispossessed.
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40 chapters
- 1THE VILLAGE LABOURER 1760–1832
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I THE CONCENTRATION OF POWER
- 5CHAPTER II THE VILLAGE BEFORE ENCLOSURE
- 6CHAPTER III ENCLOSURE (1)
- 7CHAPTER IV ENCLOSURE (2)
- 8CHAPTER V THE VILLAGE AFTER ENCLOSURE
- 9CHAPTER VI THE LABOURER IN 1795
- 10CHAPTER VII THE REMEDIES OF 1795
- 11DIET REFORM
- 12MINIMUM WAGE
- 13POOR LAW REFORM
- 14Allotments
- 15THE REMEDY ADOPTED. SPEENHAMLAND
- 16CHAPTER VIII AFTER SPEENHAMLAND
- 17CHAPTER IX THE ISOLATION OF THE POOR
- 18CHAPTER X THE VILLAGE IN 1830
+ 22 more. The full contents open with the book.
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