Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850

by Daniel Vickers

Book Overview

Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807844586
• ISBN13: 9780807844588
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.7"