1.2.2 The growth of employment

Question 1

Small Tenants suffered as a result of … and smallholding became an …. employment for many

Answer 1

• Enclosure

- Unsustainable

Question 2

The number of what type of labourers grew in the 17th century?

Answer 2

wage-dependent agricultural labourers

Question 2

The number of what type of labourers grew in the 17th century?

Answer 2

wage-dependent agricultural labourers

Question 3

Although the number of wage-dependent labourers grew, what suggests this was not significantly beneficial to the economy?

Answer 3

inflation reduced the real value of wages for much of the century.

Question 4

employment on the farms of… was relatively secure. but what?

Answer 4

larger landowners but many also had to work in the small-scale cloth industry in order to feed their families

Question 5

After what act meant it was easier for land owners to hire laboureres from other parished and let them go when the harvest ended.

Answer 5

Settlement Act in 1662

Question 6

Why did Moralists disapprove of Enclosure according to historian Christopher Hill?

Answer 6

Enclosure of common land not only increased corn production it also deprived the poor of a source of fuel and pasture and so by increasing their dependence on wages forced them to work harder and more regularly than they otherwise would have done ….. Enclosure for pasture would increase employment in the clothing industry, as the same time it reduced the numbers of those who lived off the commons without working, and so released labour for industry.