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Dibbling, worst job of the Industrial Revolution

By Eden J, Freeman

Name and Nature of Dibbling

Dibbling is quite literally in the literal sence, making holes for seeds and in some cases planting the seed too. The hole is made with a 'dibble' which is a pointed stick an that is why the job was called dibbling. This job was considered an advancement from spreading the seed by hand but it did not make the job too much more tirersome and terrible.

Name and Nature

Prime Candidates

The candidates of English Dibbling happen to have been a crew of one man and about two or three children in many cases. The man was there to poke the holes and keep the jouviniles in order while they put the seeds in the holes.

Why did we need Dibblers

Why it existed

The process origionally came from an agricultrial development in India and spread to 17th century England with much popularity.

As there was a population boom in the Industrial Revolution period there was more mouths to feed. So dibbling was a way of maximising food production relatively inexpensively for farmers due to children being abundant and cheap to pay.

Who Sufferered?

The most obvious sufferers of this type of work is the partisipants who broke their backs in the feilds giving them serious problems for later life. Though this method was favoured from straight seed casting, it could be seen as harder for the farmer to manage all the seed, labour and time.

Who Benifited from the developments of this work?

It was easy imployment as little to no qualifications where needed and the lords (as always) who most likely took a portion of the farmer's gains because they owned the land.

Who benifited

Does this type of work still exist in the modern world?

Do we still do it?

You could say that we still dabble in the dibbling business though in a modernised way. Now farmers sit in an airconditioned unit 6 foot above the ground in a comfortable chair instead working on a feild from sun up to sun down.

Modern Version of Dibbling

How has technology impacted Dibbling?

In the last 5 yrears we have invested $6.7 billion into agriculture technology to match the growing need for sustinance. From autimated seeding technology to record sowing times, the machines we are developing can seed 502.05 hectares in 24 hours. So yes, as the need is a basic need of life we have excelerated this technology.

Other Questions

Extra Questions

Conections to Oliver twist

Oliver twist Reads that poor orphans which where usual candidates of dibbling, where expected to work for Bread and Gruel. Furthermore explained by a writer in Nolfolk when they wrote, “dibbling resulted in the employment of thousands of the parochial poor children who would otherwise be without employment (and thus a financial burden) at that season.”

What stopped the imminent spread of a seed drill?

Basically the prolonged spread of the primitave seed drill was mainly due to the dibblers themselves not wanting to become irelivant.

What was the pay?

A child could fetch a differed pay according to their ability, 3 pence a day for a child who filled one line of holes with seeds, where a dibbler who can handle 3 lines brought 10 1/2 pence a day.

Links and reasources.

•https://www.farmcollector.com/looking-back/history-dibbling-zb0z1804zhur/

•https://agriculturistmusa.com/how-to-plant-a-plant-dibbling-method/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0akZt6JBds

•https://www.123helpme.com/essay/Diary-Entry-of-Child-Workers-During-the-382265

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Diary Entry From a Dibbler

Diary Entry

Dear Diary, I am 11 years and two months, I come from a family of seven and all children from the age of 8 start working out in the fields. I ain't ever been much of a writing sort, me pa on the other hand loved the stuff and so he gives me a little education after he comes home from the factory. Mum works at the tailors and all my siblings get work dibbling. This morning I had to skip breakfast for a little shut eye as sleep hasn't come easy lately, my older brother basically carried me to the fields. My older brother's name is Edward Junior but most just call him junior, his severely calloused hands around my shoulder somewhat comforted me from my torment of the sleepless night. Last year we got separated into different crews and work has been harder ever since, on top of that my back has been hurting because my ward Joe has been pushing me to triple my work load. The other children in my crew are two squirts who are new to the job and it really shows. They are super slow which means I have to do more, and the younger one collapsed today only half way through work. His brother could do nothing but carry him to what little shade the dead trees gave and try to take up his workload. He later started weeping as our ward kept Dibbling in a haze, a ripple of depression came across my body as I realised I couldn’t help him. Still I endure this torment in the fields in the hope for a better life for my siblings, and give them the privilege of not having to wake every morning to the stench of disease and the crackle of sunburned skin.

I hoped writing this down would make me feel better but the speculation of my life is not worth the cost of the parchment and ink.

Henry smith.

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