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- Title
The Onset of Labour Shortage in Nineteenth-Century French Agriculture.
- Authors
Price, Roger
- Abstract
This article focuses on the consequences for French agriculture of a changes in labor-supply conditions from the 1850s. French agriculture during the first half of the nineteenth century remained very much orientated towards subsistence farming, in spite of the technical innovations proposed by eighteenth-century agronomists and the growing commercialization of its products. Poor communications, a compartmentalized market structure, a relatively immobile population, and growing population pressure on resources brought easy profits to the larger landowners and farmers. The present contribution is primarily an examination of the replies to the agricultural inquiries of 1866 and 1870. Questionnaires were addressed by the central government to local notables, usually members of local and national agricultural societies, to departmental councilors and to mayors. Economic behavior can only be comprehended as an aspect of a particular social system.
- Subjects
CROP insurance; RURAL industries; AGRONOMISTS; LAND tenure; SYSTEMS theory; SOCIAL systems
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1975, Vol 28, Issue 2, p260
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2593487