Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850

Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string...
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Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 by Vickers, Daniel

Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850

$144.40

Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850

$144.40
Author: Daniel Vickers
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization.



Author: Daniel Vickers
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North C
Published: 11/18/1994
Pages: 372
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.70h x 5.63w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780807844588

About the Author
Vickers, Daniel: - Daniel Vickers is currently Chair of the Maritime Studies Research Unit at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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