Note: / After the passing of centuries, it is often difficult, even well-nigh impossible, to come to a definite decision with regard to certain phases of everyday life amongst the ordinary folk: of ancient peoples, if archaeological remains are not very helpful and literary references few and far between. Thus it follows that the question as to the wide-spread prevalence of many customs is one which we are often content to settle by an occasional misinterpreted statement, or at least by two or three chance references which, perhaps, were the exception rather than the established rule.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 140-143.

Thèse (Ph. D.)--Université de Genève, 1940. / Cover title. At head of title: Université de Genève. Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Purdue University. / Cover title. Vita: p. [3] of cover. Bibliography: p. 41-43.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1935. / Without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 62-63.

Thesis (MA Public and Visual History (Dept. of HIstory, Faculty of Arts))--University of the Western Cape, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-70).

This thesis is based on an historical study of agriculture in West Devon and interviews with one hundred farmers in the area. The way in which family labour farming has adapted to the changing economic and social conditions of the twentieth century is analysed. The process of specialisation of production, the rise of owner-occupation of land and the continued shedding of farm labour are documented. Particular attention is devoted to ways of conceptualising family farming in rural sociology both as a specific form of economic production within capitalism and as a component of a traditional middle class in society. The persistence, indeed re-emergence, of familial production in agriculture is explained in the context of the resilience of family farming itself and a number of constraints to wholesale change in the industry. These constraints include the nature of land in agricultural production and the ways in which family farming is itself adapted and transformed to meet the changing conditions for its reproduction set by other sectors of a capitalist economy and through the state's involvement in agricultural policy.