... would rise with the sun to work on the farm milking cows. This work would consist of hard physical labour until the sun had set with low pay and only one day off a week. This job would usually only be taken by lower class women, the men of that particular social status would also do physically demanding work, but probably of a different nature, such as harvesting crops. The women milking the cows would be led by a manager, who in this case had rented the livestock and the land from the farmer. This now shows us that the farmer is technically not a farmer, but more of a businessman. This enables the farmer to become wealthy with relative ease. This gain of wealth not only provides the farmer with the ability to buy more land, livestock and equipment, but it also gives him power through the classing system, ...

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