The Land AgentPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.3366/EDINBURGH/9781474438865.003.0005
Fidelma Byrne
{"title":"Divisions of Labour: Inter-managerial Conflict among the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Agents","authors":"Fidelma Byrne","doi":"10.3366/EDINBURGH/9781474438865.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/EDINBURGH/9781474438865.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam estates in Yorkshire and Ireland and explores the hierarchical structure of the management system, by charting how this tripartite agency developed as a consequence of estate expansion. It discusses the agents’ background, education and training and in so doing, exposes the core belief system underpinning the earls Fitzwilliam philosophy. While morally admirable, this ideology had a somewhat negative effect on the estate in terms of economic progression. However, from the mid-nineteenth century, the impact of landlord paternalism was minimised by the improved economic climate in south Yorkshire which also placed the land agent in a more favourable position when challenged about his management practices. Unlike the Irish land system which was chiefly concerned with agricultural land, the south Yorkshire estate was quite distinct, for in addition to its agricultural interests, it contained industrial elements predominantly coal and ironstone and thus, required a more elaborate administration structure. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in creating an array of roles to oversee the external divisions of labour, internal fissures developed which over time widened to reveal the sometimes flawed management system on the estate.","PeriodicalId":354706,"journal":{"name":"The Land Agent","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114974635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Land AgentPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438865.003.0014
L. A. Rees, C. Reilly, A. Tindley
{"title":"The Land Agent in Fiction","authors":"L. A. Rees, C. Reilly, A. Tindley","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438865.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438865.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"As many of the chapters have touched upon individually, the legacy and memory of the land agent in Britain and Ireland made a strong impression on both contemporary and subsequent poetry, fiction, drama and folklore. This is unsurprising, given the wide range of powers, personalities and activities of land agents in all corners of the British and Irish isles, as well as the sheer scale of their dominion. Despite the urbanisation and industrialisation overtaking much of society in this period, large sections of it remained rural and agricultural, and the power of the landed and aristocratic classes, though subject to challenge, remained strong. Ireland – Belfast, Dublin and Cork aside – remained a fundamentally rural society and agricultural economy well into the twentieth century. As such, the requirements for, and scope of activities of, land agents, remained significant and the raw materials for fictional presentations of such powerful figures prevalent, as discussed in this chapter.","PeriodicalId":354706,"journal":{"name":"The Land Agent","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114663522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Land AgentPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438865.003.0015
Kirsty Gunn
{"title":"Poor Beasts","authors":"Kirsty Gunn","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438865.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438865.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter consists of an original short story, based on the themes explored by the novel: of power, conflict, and the past and future of land issues and how defines them in Scotland today.","PeriodicalId":354706,"journal":{"name":"The Land Agent","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123954642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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