Percentages of Total Populations Engaged in Agriculture England and France, 1500 to 1900 Year England France 76% 73% 1500 55% 63% 1600 46% 61% 1750 36% 55% 1800 22% 52% 1850 7% 43% 1900 Sources: Growth and Agricultural Change: England and the Continent in the Early Modern Journal of E. Anthony Wrigley, ‘Urban Period’, 15 (Spring 1985), 683-728; and E. A. Wrigley, on the Land and Men in the Countryside: Interdisciplinary History, ‘Men Employment in Agriculture in Early Nineteenth-Century in L. Bonfield et al, eds., (Oxford, The World We Have Gained England’, 1985); Robert C. Allen, Growth of Labor Productivity in Early Modern English Explorations in Economic History, ‘The Agriculture’, 25 (April 1988), 117-46; Grantham, (1991); George Grantham, Growth of Labour Productivity Land, Labour, and Productivity ‘The in the Production of Wheat in the of France, 1750 - in Bruce M. S. Campbell and Mark Overton, eds., Cinq Grosses Fermes 1929’, (Manchester and New York: Manchester Land, Labour and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity
Percentages of Total Populations Engaged in Agriculture England and France, 1500 to 1900 Year England France 1500 76% 73% 1600 55% 63% 1750 46% 61% 1800 36% 55% 1850 22% 52% 1900 7% 43% Sources: E. Anthony Wrigley, ‘Urban Growth and Agricultural Change: England and the Continent in the Early Modern Period’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 15 (Spring 1985), 683-728; and E. A. Wrigley, ‘Men on the Land and Men in the Countryside: Employment in Agriculture in Early Nineteenth-Century England’, in L. Bonfield et al, eds., The World We Have Gained (Oxford, 1985); Robert C. Allen, ‘The Growth of Labor Productivity in Early Modern English Agriculture’, Explorations in Economic History, 25 (April 1988), 117-46; Grantham, Land, Labour, and Productivity (1991); George Grantham, ‘The Growth of Labour Productivity in the Production of Wheat in the Cinq Grosses Fermes of France, 1750 - 1929’, in Bruce M. S. Campbell and Mark Overton, eds., Land, Labour and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity (Manchester and New York: Manchester
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