Social Tensions Between Farmer and Farm Laborer in Northern Holland

In a well-organized district of the Netherlands personal relations between farmer and farm laborer up to about 1800 were patriarchal and peaceable. Then farmers became capitalistic entrepreneurs, and strong class distinctions developed between them and their hands, who now became an unattached proletariat susceptible to Marxism; and strikes and lockouts became frequent. Following the depression, to save Dutch agriculture, both parties had to make peace and co-operate in a bureaucratically conducted program; yet the class antagonisms persist. It is suggested that the agricultural colleges might correct this by inculcating new attitudes in the young farmers

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