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THE DECLINE OF FARM SERVICE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SCOTLAND AND SWEDEN

THE DECLINE OF FARM SERVICE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SCOTLAND AND SWEDEN ARTICLES THE DECLINE OF FARM SERVICE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SCOTLAND AND SWEDEN T.M. Devine and B. Harnesk1 by From the Middle Ages until the advent of industrialisation, Western Europe was characterised by a peculiar system of recruitment of labour in agriculture. An essential part of the arduous work necessary for feeding the population was performed by a large number of young men and women. They were farm servants. On almost every farm, one or two of them worked for wages, undertaking the regular tasks of agriculture in close contact with their masters and employers. Many of them were the sons and daughters of farmers, and they themselves would eventually become farmers and farmers' wives, at least until the great transformation of rural society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At any point in time, one tenth or more of the population belonged to this group of people, and fifty per cent of the population would experience the lot of the farm servant in the of a lifetime. The institution of farm service was unique to Western Europe. It has been suggested that it was one of the preconditions for European industrialisation. There was already a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Scottish Historical Studies Edinburgh University Press

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Edinburgh University Press
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1748-538X
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10.3366/sesh.1991.11.11.5
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ARTICLES THE DECLINE OF FARM SERVICE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SCOTLAND AND SWEDEN T.M. Devine and B. Harnesk1 by From the Middle Ages until the advent of industrialisation, Western Europe was characterised by a peculiar system of recruitment of labour in agriculture. An essential part of the arduous work necessary for feeding the population was performed by a large number of young men and women. They were farm servants. On almost every farm, one or two of them worked for wages, undertaking the regular tasks of agriculture in close contact with their masters and employers. Many of them were the sons and daughters of farmers, and they themselves would eventually become farmers and farmers' wives, at least until the great transformation of rural society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At any point in time, one tenth or more of the population belonged to this group of people, and fifty per cent of the population would experience the lot of the farm servant in the of a lifetime. The institution of farm service was unique to Western Europe. It has been suggested that it was one of the preconditions for European industrialisation. There was already a

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Journal of Scottish Historical Studies – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Jan 1, 1991

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