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Iains	BS: UK Politics. Moderated thread (365* d)	RE: BS: UK Politics. Moderated thread	18 Apr 20
Picking as it used to be by George Orwell https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/hop-picking/ There was an annual migration out of the east end of London every year for picking. This lasted up until the late 60's when mechanisation meant that one machine could do the work of 150 to 200 hop pickers. https://theconversation.com/who-picked-british-fruit-and-veg-before-migrant-workers-63279 https://bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/52n2a4.pdf and a gov reporton migrant workers(2013) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/257242/migrant-seasonal-workers. Times change so do people and industries. Post war hop picking in Kent was an escape from slums. Those slums have gone (Although replacement high rise flats hardly match the vision of Le Corbusier of towers in a park) and the need to escape to fresh air no longer applies, nor the need to earn additional money.

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