Question

Discuss the factors that precipitated the Agricultural Depression? What were the consequences of this depression? How was the Captain Swing movement related to this Depression?

Answer 1

Today people in agriculture have to deal with common pressures from a number of sources, such as:

Financial issues:
1 - borrowings and poor return on capital
2 - Increased regulation
3- Irregular weather patterns
4- Animal diseases
5- Marketing produce
6- Family expectations and succession planning
7- Workplace isolation
8- Lack of respite from work

These are just some of the factors that can result in depression and anxiety. Other causes
can be an upsetting event, a chemical imbalance in the brain, a relationship breakup or a family pre-disposition to depression. Common symptoms can include:

Low mood (sadness, frequently tearful or unable to cry)
Anxiety – worrying obsessively, or out of proportion to the problem
Changes in appetite (loss of appetite or increased appetite)
Disturbed sleep patterns
Lack of energy/feeling tired
Reliance on alcohol
Lack of interest in family and friends
Unable to enjoy hobbies as before
Confused thinking, poor concentration and difficulty in making decisions
A change in personality (such as uncharacteristic aggression)

Answer 2

Alter the end of Napoleonic wars thousands of soldiers returned to the villages. They needed alternative jobs to survive. But this was a time when grain from Europe began flowing into England, prices declined and an Agricultural Depression set in. Anxious landowners began reducing the area they cultivated and demanded that the exports of crops be stopped. They tried to cut wages and reduced the number of workmen they employed. The unemployed poor tramped from village to Village, and those with uncertain jobs lived in fear of a loss of their livelihood. The Captain Swing riots spread of bad times. in the countryside at this time. For the poor, the threshing machines had become sign of bad times.