The census and the servant: A reassessment of the decline and distribution of farm service in early nineteenth-century England

Economic History Review

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 84-106

  Gritt, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; LABOR SUPPLY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RURAL ECONOMY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034033608     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0289.00153     Document Type: Article

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