LABRST 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Industrial Workers Of The World, Cultural Movement, Second Industrial Revolution

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

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3) through income from their farm, thus the family had the option of working with their farm to meet their own sources of work for someone else households where the farm production would meet current needs although would force. Farm households and wage labour in the northern maritimes in the early nineteenth. Many people would buy lands although on average about 1. 5 acres of land would be purchased per year. Weather conditions and the presence or absence of crop and animal disease affected the progress of a household. During the 1840"s there was a repeated failure of potato crops which was caused by frost. The people that did have access to resources were found working on their farms for over 30 years. Some households would make ends meet through combining wage work with the sales of their crops although majority would trade their goods, for example trade their butter and meat for breadstuffs and fish.