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Wilson Fox, "they are usually considered as much on the permanent staff of the farm as the hired man. " 3 Tradition, the requirements of pasture-farming with its comparatively uniform demand for labour, the thin population, the absence of large villages, the nearness of the factory and mining districts, and the social position of the farmers all contributed to maintain this system. In Derbyshire and Cheshire the labourers seem to have vanished so entirely that their duties "have to be done by e...ither Irish labour, or a temporary transfer from surrounding mineral industries. " 4 Mr. Wilkinson, who had to report on Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Staffordshire, and a part of Derbyshire, observed that the labourers in the pasture-farming districts were more fre- quently unemployed in the winter than those in arable Pt. TIL, p. 9, IT. 2 Pt. VI. , p. 17, 36. 3 Pt. III. , p. 13, note. 4 Pt. IV. , p. 8, 9. So also, though not quite so completely, in the South- well Union, "where very few day-labourers are employed now.
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