| Agricultural
Work : Tools and Machinery |
Beginning in the last third of the 19th Century, agriculture undergoes
massive technical changes that create a huge gulf between the work
done on a modern farm compared with the same work done more than
a century ago. In addition to the development of cultivated species
better adapted to the prairie environment, the introduction of such
practices as fallowing land and rotating crops, not to mention the
major developments in biochemistry since the end of the Second World
War, the development of farm implements and machinery considerably
alters how work is done on the farm. Although several of the technological
innovations come into general use only gradually in time and space,
their effects are nevertheless striking: agricultural production
increases markedly and, perhaps more than anything else, work productivity
rises enormously. But entering this universe of new techniques also
means acknowledging a highly important dimension of the material
culture of the rural, agricultural world.
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