The discussion sketches a coastal economy built around mining, farming, and fishing. Mining and fishing receive specific gendered tasks: women break ore with sledgehammers and gut the catch while boats return to sea. Farming, wrecking, and smuggling round out the deliberately comic picture of demanding Cornish work, with both men and women said to take part in the illegal trades. This is an anecdotal aside rather than a complete survey of Cornish social history.
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Work, gender, and the Cornish coastal economy
A comic aside links mining, fishing, farming, wrecking, and smuggling to the work shared across Cornish communities.