Were people during the beginning of the Industrial revolution paid money to tend to the land in the country?

Question

I thought people during the Victorian age still could tend the land and not have to worry about money.

Answer 1

PEOPLE WORKED TO EAT....SURVIVE....
MONEY WAS SCARCE...AND FOOD-SHELTER-CLOTHING WAS THE PAY...

Answer 2

Most people who worked on the land were tenant farmers. They paid the landowner rent, in various ways, but mostly by supplying them with the produce they farmed. It was more barter than money. You had a chicken that had stopped laying, you bartered it with someone else for something you wanted and they would eat the chicken. Simple but you can see what I mean. If they were not tenant farmers but farmhands they worked for the farmer for room and board. That is a roof over their heads and food. Wives made clothes with what material was available, sacking or whatever they could weave, spin or knit from the animals on the farm or picking tufts of wool off the fences and bushes when the sheep rubbed against them. Shoes were non-existant. That is why so many farm labourers moved into town to get jobs that paid proper money from the Factories. It decimated small holdings and crofts where farmers were hard pushed to make a decent life for their families.

Answer 3

serfdom didnt exist - i'l make that plainly clear.

what did exist is a method of non-modern employment. essentially those who worked the land were "employed" to do so by the owner of the land in many cases the owner worked that land (like today's farmers). If you didnt own the land you were paid in food and with a place to stay - if it was a good crop you were given some money to do with as you wished.
If you owned the land you were completely dependant upon the income from your crop.

The assumption that the Lords owned all the land is only partially true. By this stage they rented the lands out - or allowed people to "own" the land and pay something akin to land tax for the privilege.

However the idea that they didnt have to worry about money is niave - if not money then they worried about another means of survival such as whether their boss had the money to still feed them...

Answer 4

Some were, some weren't. I know in Padiham, Lancashire, some textile workers worked as agricultural labourers when work was slack., but Padiham is in the middle of the countryside, inner Manchester isn't. So it depended on where you lived.

Answer 5

People who were employed by the owner of the land, were given a place to live nearby and fed that was it.

Answer 6

Yep.

Answer 7

well i would say yes there was still serfdom specially in England.