books.google.ca - Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Farmers_and_fishermen.html?id=N1jUaJR5becC&q=employment&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFarmers and fishermen
