Talk:Agrarian society

False source?

As much as I searched, I could not find a book titled "Features of Person and Society under Agrarianism: Collected Essays" by Barth Frederik. I found "Features of person and society in Swat: collected essays on Pathans" by Barth Frederik instead but it doesn't seem to be related to agrarianism at all. I tried searching for even a mere mention of it but I could only find preprints and simple copies of this very same Wikipedia article, all of which date to after the edit on this article which added said reference.

Is this a case of a fabricated source?

The reference in question is Barth, F. 2001. Features of Person and Society under Agrarianism: Collected Essays. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. added by user @86.49.79.58 on 22 April 2014. Duchy2 (talk) 18:22, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Frequent Vandalism

A lot of very obvious vandalism, someone needs to keep an eye on this and some people should go over it, I fixed the description a bit ago. Wandkat (talk) 22:42, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

How to do the pot hagfish

Ingredients 100.2.110.70 (talk) 23:41, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

US in mid 19th Century

The claim that the US had less than half of its workforce employed in agriculture by the mid 19th Century, as stated in the article, is dubious. According to several accessible sources (see links below), 53% of American workers were employed in the farm sector in 1860, and this number did not drop to under half until around 1890ish:

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/statistics-trends-american-farming#:~:text=Statistics:%20Trends%20in%20American%20Farming%20%7C%20Percentage,Farms%20(in%20thousands)%20Proportion%20of%20Total%20Population

Even at the turn of the 20th Century, roughly 40% worked in agriculture, and this was still the largest source of employment (outstripping both manufacturing and services, although not combined):

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/american-labor-in-the-20th-century.pdf

The picture that this data paints is one of a developing country for the majority of the 19th Century, not on par with Western Europe in the mid 19th Century, as claimed by the article. What specifically was this content sourced to? ~2025-34148-79 (talk) 22:25, 16 November 2025 (UTC)