Name/Title
Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, MA 1630-1850Entry/Object ID
2019.010.004Description
"Evoking the working lives of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Daniel Vickers examines their shifting labor strategies as New England evolved from frontier conditions to the brink of industrialization. To cope with shortages of capital and workers, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of England to their New World setting. As their society matured, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the conomic transformations of the nineteenth century."
Chapters Include:
1. Improving the Lord's Garden
competency, commerce, contradiction
2. Farmers, 1630-1700
the rural economy of England, settlement, laborers, servants and exchanging works, fathers and sons, tenancy
3. Fishermen, 1630-1675
the rise of the North Atlantic fisheries, launching the fishery in New England, merchant patrons, fishing clients, work, society
4. Fishermen, 1675-1775
shallops to schooners, clientage to free labor, seaport fishermen in Marblehead and Salem, cottage fishermen on Cape Ann
5. Farmers, 1700-1775
markets and production, fathers and sons, servants and slaves, free labor and exchanging works, by-employments
6. Fishermen, Farmers, and Manufacturers, 1775-1850
Fishing - revival, diversification, growing gray in the service of the sea, leaving the sea
Farming - markets and production, relations of production, the Northey farm
ManufactureCollection
Breed CollectionBook Details
Author
Vickers, DanielDate Published
1994