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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Agricultural labourers"”.
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The parliamentary career of Michael Thomas Sadler, 1829-1833
… Sadler’s attempts at reform on behalf of the agricultural labourers of Britain. The thesis concludes with a reappraisal of Sadler’s contribution to social reform in the early nineteenth century together with a reassessment of his position within the Tory party.
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Labour policy in Namibia: Assessing its implementation with regard to agricultural wage labourers
Immediately after independence the Namibian government adopted a National Policy on Labour and "Manpower" Development. In terms of this policy trade unions were prioritised as main stakeholders for change in labour matters. Furthermore all labour matters were to be dealt with on a tri-partite basis
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The agricultural labourer and the state in Independent Ireland, 1922-76
… for the other group indigenous to the land, the agricultural labourers. Largely synonymous with decline, this thesis challenges the tendency to write this class off as a sector o f note by establishing them not only as Ireland’s largest single wage earning group until the 1960s but also its …
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Social investigation in rural England, 1870-1914
… were asked to comment on the condition of the agricultural labourer) and the 'respondent' approach (where the labourer was consulted at first hand) is used to illustrate the complexity of the structure or rural social inquiries of the period. It is shown that the kinds of information which …
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Agricultural change in the East Riding of Yorkshire: 1850-1880: an economic and social history
… land, but detailed discussion is reserved for labourers.Most of the study's conclusions fall within current thinking though some indicate the need for re-interpretation and revision. It is undeniable that there was significant technical progress in the agricultural industry of the East Riding …