The English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 2 - 9781138759596

Taylor & Francis

Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century > Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is of interest to scholars in nineteenth-century studies and to all social historians. > Volume 2: The 'Revolt of the Field' Baldwyn Leighton, William Morris and E L O'Malley, 'How May the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer be Improved?' (1872); The Strike in the Agricultural Districts: The Life and Experiences of a Warwickshire Labourer, with His Own Thoughts and Opinions on the Strike, as Told by Himself (1872); Rev. W H Ridley, The Agricultural Labourers' Union (1872); A Farmer')