Category Archives: agrarian reform

J L Hammond, a working history

Posted on February 18, 2015 by michaellangford2012

J L Hammond and Barbara Hammond are two of the greatest historians you’ve probably never heard of.  In the early years of the twentieth century, they were commissioned by the British Labor Research Department to investigate the social and economic … Continue reading →

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$20k house redux

Posted on February 16, 2015 by michaellangford2012

I don’t believe it’s fair to criticize unless you can offer a better idea.  If these four guys can actually build a complete house in three weeks, they are carpenters, not mere laborers. This crew is going to spend the next … Continue reading →

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Mending Fences

Posted on August 30, 2014 by michaellangford2012

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”  Maya Angelou As an artisan, the tools and materials you work with are concrete and finite, predictable and dependable. Humans can be capricious, contradictory, vain, temperamental, and (occasionally) … Continue reading →

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Piñata of Ideas

Posted on July 11, 2014 by michaellangford2012

Ever have a really good idea, and when you float it out there, someone just can’t wait to knock the stuffing out of it.  Yeah!  Just think of it as a piñata, a little out of reach but interesting enough … Continue reading →

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the concentration of power

Posted on February 28, 2012 by michaellangford2012

THE VILLAGE LABOURER, 1760-1832, by J. L. and Barbara Hammond “Enclosures might have benefited all parties, but now they form part of what Blackstone denominates a ‘failed rural policy’, one which has completed the degradation and ruin of our agricultural … Continue reading →

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the enclosure movement

Posted on February 9, 2012 by michaellangford2012

The open-field village was essentially a self-contained social and economic organization originally based upon production for subsistence, not for market.  It was not peculiar to England–or to Europe.  Whenever and wherever man first reached the stage of settled cultivation, some … Continue reading →

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