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Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
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Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 is a work of historical non-fiction written by Daniel Vickers and first published in the USA in 1994. The book "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". The work also touches on issues of Patriarchy in a less usual sense, exploring male domination of other males in the context of labor: "eventeenth-century farmers maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force". The book is referenced within the film Good Will Hunting, particularly the phrase "Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..." which the character Will Hunting claims to be from page 98 of Work in Essex County. In fact the passage does not appear in the book on this page or any other. It won the 1995 John H. Dunning Prize. 
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