Farmers and Fishermen
Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11675219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emerson W Baker (corresponding author), Daniel Vickers |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 661-661 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Early Republic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-1275 • E-ISSN: 1553-0620 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3124019 |
| OpenAlex | W2316812582 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
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 paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization
Agricultural economics · Archaeology · County government · Economic history · Economics · Geography · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Work (physics · American Environmental and Regional History · Engineering · History · Public Administration
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From Field to Plate
Early American Environmental Histories
Becoming a Dependent Class
Exploding Colonial American History
Young men and the sea
Strategic lies and family ties
The Hinge
Colonizing the Black Atlantic
Thomas Jefferson's Liberal Anticapitalism
"Cows in the Corn, Pigs in the Garden, and "the Problem of Social Costs
Disappearing from Abolitionism's Heartland
History Below the Waterline
Making an environmental market, unmaking adaptive capacity
Introduction
Fishers, Fishing, and Overfishing
Toward a Blue Cultural Studies
Sole Traders? The Role of the Extended Family in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Business Networks
Farm transmission and the commercialization of agriculture in northern Maine in the second half of the 19th century
Restless Movements Characteristic of Childhood”
Another British America
A Laudable Spirit of Enterprise”
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |