Barbara Hammond
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The first installment of a pioneering trilogy that would include The Town Labourer (1917) and The Skilled Labourer (1919), this 1911 volume established the Hammonds as revisionist historians whose meticulous research and persuasive prose not only illuminated the past but could influence contemporary social debates. Here the authors focused on the effects of enclosure measures on the rural poor.
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In this 1919 volume, the final installment in a pioneering trilogy that began with The Village Labourer (1911) and continued in The Town Labourer (1917), the authors focus on the obsolescence of skilled labor in the face of technological change during the Industrial Revolution. As in the previous two works, the Hammonds view their subject through a lens of class exploitation.
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In this 1917 volume, the second installment in a pioneering trilogy that includes The Village Labourer (1911) and The Skilled Labourer (1919), the authors shift from agricultural laborers to the urban working class. Here the Hammonds identify class exploitation as a pernicious effect of the Industrial Revolution and advocate governmental regulation as a fair solution.
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Many histories have been written of the governing class that ruled England with such absolute power during the last century of the old régime. Those histories have shown how that class conducted war, how it governed its colonies, how it behaved to the continental Powers, how it managed the first critical chapters of our relations with India, how it treated Ireland, how it developed the Parliamentary system, how it saved Europe from Napoleon. One...