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

Name: Farmers and Fishermen Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
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ISBN: 9780807844588

ISBN-10: 0807844586

ISBN-13: 9780807844588

Edition: 1994

Authors: Daniel Vickers

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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.…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/18/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations and Tables


Short Titles and Abbreviations


Introduction



Improving the Lord's Garden


Competency


Commerce


Contradiction



Farmers, 1630-1700


The Rural Economy of England


Settlement


Laborers, Servants, and Exchanging Works


Fathers and Sons


Tenancy



Fishermen, 1630-1675


The Rise of the North Atlantic Fisheries


Launching the Fishery in New England


Merchant Patrons


Fishing Clients


Work


Society



Fishermen, 1675-1775


Shallops to Schooners


Clientage to Free Labor


Seaport Fishermen in Marblehead and Salem


Cottage Fishermen on Cape Ann



Farmers, 1700-1775


Markets and Production


Fathers and Sons


Servants and Slaves


Free Labor and Exchanging Works


By-employments



Fishermen, Farmers, and Manufactures, 1775-1850


Fishing


Farming


Manufacture


Conclusion


Appendixes


Index