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The Agricultural Proletariat
The countryside reached last by the same forces: how enclosure and the concentration of farms turned small holders into day-labourers, the incendiary fires that answered rural pauperism, and why Engels thought the idyllic-looking villages were only a generation behind the towns.
Concentration of landholdingRural pauperism and the Poor LawIncendiarism ('Swing' fires)The Welsh and Irish countrysideRural workers' lagging class consciousness