ABSTRACT
This volume comprehensively describes how British farmers coped with the problems of shortage of labour and other factors of production, as well as assessing how well agriculture performed as a supplier of food to the nation. Use of previously neglected records provides much evidence on issues such as the deployment of substitute labour and the introduction of the tractor into British farming for the first time. Challenging accepted view on the period, the author shows that shortages of labour and other factors of production had only a slight effect on farm output and the national food supply.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
chapter |13 pages
Farming and Food Supply before 1914
part |67 pages
1914–16
chapter |13 pages
The Evolution of Policy
chapter |24 pages
Recruiting and Farm Labour
chapter |9 pages
Power and Machinery
chapter |10 pages
Fertilisers and Feeds
chapter |9 pages
Farming in Wartime
part |109 pages
1917–18
chapter |42 pages
Labourers, Soldiers, Prisoners, and Women
chapter |16 pages
Tractors and Machinery
chapter |7 pages
Fertilisers and Feeds
chapter |27 pages
The Work of the County Executive Committees
part |45 pages
The Achievement