The Professionalisation of English Agriculture?

Brassley, Paul

doi:10.1017/s0956793305001494

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“…As Fraser (2014) argued, a feasible model is needed that fosters skills and knowledge transfer for farmers and their workers and facilitates the transition of animal production into a profession. Farmers are not a uniform group, and the degree of professionalism varies (Brassley, 2005). In the next section we discuss the model of professional accreditation and professional development in the dairy industry and other potential avenues of professionalization.…”

Section: The Role Of Professional Accreditation In the Dairy Industrymentioning

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“…Dairy farms have been, and largely continue to be, family-run operations passed down to family members from one generation to the next (Deming et al, 2019); as Brassley (2005) describes, "most farmers… appear to be selected by accident of birth" (p. 245). This system creates challenges specific to working with family.…”

Section: Advising In the Context Of A Family Businessmentioning

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Graduate Student Literature Review: Challenges and opportunities for human resource management on dairy farms

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Keyserlingk

2021

Journal of Dairy Science

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Section: Advising In the Context Of A Family Businessmentioning

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Graduate Student Literature Review: Challenges and opportunities for human resource management on dairy farms

Mills

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Keyserlingk

2021

Journal of Dairy Science

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“…83 Paul Brassley has recently argued that twentieth-century farming per se demonstrates some, but not all, of the features of a profession according to the Perkins model. 84 Can middle-class townswomen who trained in agriculture in the first half of the twentieth century also lay claim to this "professional stratum" within English farming? They were self-selecting in that they had the resources and enthusiasm to follow a specialized career path.…”

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Business and Pleasure: Middle-Class Women’s Work and the Professionalization of Farming in England, 1890–1939

Verdon¹

2012

J. Br. Stud.

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I n January 1935, the leading weekly farming magazine in England, Farmer and Stockbreeder, began publication of a new series showcasing the work of "Successful Women Farmers." The opening page claimed that "it is generally not realised how many women are engaged in farming on their own account and making a success of it." 1 The series ran for eighteen months and was the culmination of a process that had seen farming promoted as a suitable career for women in England over the previous four decades. This was succinctly summed up by the farmer featured in March 1935, Miss Dillon. Asked for her view on farming as a profession for women, she remarked, "It's the finest life in the world." 2 Miss Dillon personified a new type of woman farmer in the 1930s. Educated and articulate, she ran an Oxfordshire farm with her friend Miss Corbett, producing milk for the wholesale trade. Farmer and Stockbreeder did not doubt that farmers such as Misses Dillon and Corbett encapsulated "the valuable work which women are doing throughout the country for the advancement of agriculture." 3 Historians have been more reticent. Women's work has emerged as a central research theme in the new English rural historiography in recent years, but female farmers-those who owned or rented land for cultivation-remain conspicuous by their absence. Nor has farming been considered in relation to the opening up of professions for women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article shows that debates about gender, class, and professionalization intersected in a unique way around farming. It will explore why farming came to be seen as a viable occupation for middle-class women in England and how the discourse was framed in such a Nicola Verdon is a reader in modern British history at Sheffield Hallam University. She has published widely on gender, employment, and households in the British countryside since 1800 and is currently writing a book on the history of the farm worker in England from 1850 to the present day. 1 394 Ⅵ VERDON way to assuage unease over gender roles and class position in the period before the First World War. The development of the primary paths to the professionalization of farming-agricultural education and training-will then be analyzed. How far these advances benefited women who moved into practical farming in the interwar period forms the focus of the final section. Utilizing personal accounts from women who farmed, this section explores whether farming was a profession that enabled middle-class women to lead economically, socially, and intellectually independent lives in the years before the Second World War. Ⅵ Ⅵ ⅥWomen have always been involved in English farming. Once a subject that elicited little attention, the participation of women as paid workers in agriculture, as both day laborers and hired servants, now commands considerable debate among historians of rural England. The place of women in the agricultural workforce during the classic industrial revolution period, whether women were paid a market or a cus...

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“…At the level of individual industries, post‐1945 agricultural history is sparse, though Brassley explores the increasing professionalization of farming, and Ludlow highlights the early complexity of the European Community’s common agricultural policy. For the cotton industry, Abendstein et al . examine pay structures and their role in encouraging dangerous working practices.…”

Section: (Vi) Since 1945  Hugh Pemberton  University Of Bristolmentioning

confidence: 99%