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    Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850

    By Daniel Vickers

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    Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOmohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9780807839959
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      "Bible standard" for Messianic Jews. Includes Weekly Torah reading schedule. Is a very good text to compare with KJV or NKJV for serious Bible scholars.
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      Interesting for studying the Hebrew roots of and references in the New Testament. I would not recommend it as a primary Bible. The author may have some theological axes to grind. I'm also not entirely comfortable with removing the Greek cultural setting of the New Testament, nor with the idea of correcting mistranslations caused by "anti-Jewish bias."
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      I have read this version cover-to-cover 3 times including once side-by-side with the King James Version (my baseline version) and I am very impressed. It is an excellent and highly-readable version. I bought multiple copies to give as Christmas gifts last year.