Short, B. (1984). The Decline of Living-in Servants in the Transition to Capitalist Farming: A Critique of the Sussex Evidence. Sussex Archaeological Collections 122. Vol 122, pp. 147-164. https://doi.org/10.5284/1086352. Cite this via datacite
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The Decline of Living-in Servants in the Transition to Capitalist Farming: A Critique of the Sussex Evidence | ||
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Sussex Archaeological Collections 122 | ||
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Sussex Archaeological Collections | ||
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147 - 164 | ||
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The decline of the living-in servant has been taken as a symbolic and necessary part of the overall decline of that special relationship between master and man which had characterized English agriculture before the advent of capitalism. The household links which derived their origin from the close bonding between the provisioners of capital and labour living under the same roof and forming a small unit of production, were seen by Marx to be very characteristic of the feudal mode of production. By separating master and man, by depriving the living-in servant of customary entitlements to board and lodging, and by the progressive proletarianization of agricultural labour, the cash nexus was established and a landless, and mostly casualized, labourer was created. It is this concept of a social and spatial polarization of classes in the English countryside which will be examined here in some detail, with reference to material drawn from Sussex. It will be argued that the concept of class polarization, at least when seen in the perspective of Sussex, has been too simplistic. When one considers, for example, the actual experiences of farm workers, as well as the abstractions of political economy, the situation becomes very much more complex. A re-evaluation is now long overdue. | ||
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1984 | ||
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08 Jun 2021 |
