Questions about Hiring Fairs (2)

Reference code: FOL.QUES/48
Level of description: Series
Title: Questions about Hiring Fairs (2)
Scope and content: 1. Which Hiring Fairs do you have any knowledge of?
2. What size farms employed hired people?
3. Did farms ever hire more than one person?
4. At what age did people start offering themselves for hire?
5. At what age did people stop offering themselves for hire?
6. What sort of work did the following types of people do if hired in the spring?
(a) Men
(b) Women
(c) Children
7. What sort of work did they do when hired in autumn?
(a) Men
(b) Women
(c) Children
8. Did the people hired ever offer special skills? Were they better paid?
9. Were married couples or whole families ever hired?
10. Did all the hired people live on the farm?
11. Where did they eat?
12. Where did they sleep?
13. Did farmers hiring people usually have other labourers as well?
14. Were other labourers better or worse paid than hired labourers?
15. What sort of things caused disagreements between farmers and the people they hired?
16. Did farmers ever sack hired people? For what reasons?
17. When did hiring die out?