Agriculture, wage labour and household economies in eighteenthcentury Flanders: a regional and integrated analysis. Ghent University
During the eighteenth century the Flemish countryside experienced profound structural change.
Agricultural production increased and diversified, population rose by some 60 per cent and
agricultural holdings were increasingly subdivided. This project views this changes through the lens
of the labour market for agricultural labour. The first objective of this project consists of a
reconstruction of ...