Capitalism in Agriculture and Labour Supply: The Case of Brie during the Period 1850-1940

D Ponchelet

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 1990, vol. 17, issue 3, 303-16

Abstract: The availability of manpower has always been crucial for large-scale agriculture. Competing for labor with urban sectors, large tenant farmers of Brie (just east of Paris) employed from the mid-nineteenth century onward an increasing number of migrant workers drawn from the peasant economy, but these workers seldom remained in Brie. This instability was the result of the wage level: agricultural wages were much lower than the industrial wages and were, therefore, insufficient to keep the workers on the farms. Copyright 1990 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1990
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