ABSTRACT
Manual labour, working clothes and lack of ceremony set the wealthiest farmers and craftsmen apart from landowners. In these households authority, and often age, separated employer and employee but farmers, craftsmen and their wives laboured alongside their servants. And, among servants in husbandry, apprentices and serving maids, a proportion, although a proportion which shrank as time went on, could look forward to becoming their own masters and mistresses. The old ways endured longest in the pastoral uplands.
