This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... labourers who remained on the land1. The effect of the large farm system had thus been to create an over-supply of labour, larger and increasing more rapidly than the agricultural demand could suffice to take up. Only two results were possible. The population might, for whatever reasons, remain on the land, and if so, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... labourers who remained on the land1. The effect of the large farm system had thus been to create an over-supply of labour, larger and increasing more rapidly than the agricultural demand could suffice to take up. Only two results were possible. The population might, for whatever reasons, remain on the land, and if so, wages must fall. This actually happened in the corn-law period. Or on the other hand migration might increase, as was the case after 1846. Accordingly the rural exodus has been to a very great extent a consequence of the large farm system. Trade and industry developed a growing demand for labour, and the rural population, bound by no ties to the soil, went where the best chances were offered it. The large farm system did not of course create the rural exodus, but it essentiaTIystrehgthened the tendency. The nurnBeroTgricultural TaT5ourers(shepherds included) fell from 1,253,786 in 1851 to 621,168 in 1901, or by more than 50 per cent. This decrease has been explained by the development of pasture-farming and the use of agricultural machinery, which, it is said, between them rendered many labourers superfluous and so caused the depopulation of the land. They had of course their share in the movement, especially in certain districts. But they cannot be said to have caused it, for both arable and dairy-farming districts were left crying out for labour. The demand had not indeed 1 See the detailed description in Wilson Fox, Agricultural Wages, in Journal R. Statistical Soc., 1903. Also H. Levy, Landarbeiterfrage und Landfluchl in England, in Brauns Archiv, 1903, pp. 497 ff. increased absolutely: but nevertheless the supply was diminished to such an extent that labourers often simply could not be found, more especially, as Mr Rider Haggard has show...
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