Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 233 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511896002
Series Statement:
Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history
Content:
Servants in husbandry were unmarried farm workers hired on annual contracts. The institution of service distinguished them in many ways from their chief competitors, day-labourers. Servants were employed on an annual basis; they formed part of their employers' households; they were generally young and unmarried. Service was extremely common - most rural youths in early modern England became servants to farmers, and they composed as much as half of the full-time hired labour force in agriculture. Professor Kussmaul has marshalled information from sources as diverse as marriage registers, militia lists, parish censuses, settlement examinations, account books, records of Quarter Sessions, and the autobiographies of servants and masters, in producing this book which explores this important institution and to consider its wide historiographical implications
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521235662
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521071598
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521235662
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511896002
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