The following set of chapters begins with an extensive review of the traditional agriculture chattel needed to perform that activity. The traits of self-sufficiency are again seen as most of them were mainly produced locally or at home. Mention is also made of the old measurement system, part of which is still used today.
Se analiza la mano de obra y se aborda la importancia de la participación de todos los miembros de la familia en los trabajos agrícolas con independencia de su edad o sexoThe workforce is also analysed, la colaboración vecinal y en la vertiente mediterránea la contratación de jornalerosalong with the importance of all the members of the family being involved in the agricultural work, sobre todo para la recolección de las cosechasregardless of their age or sex and neighbours working together. As regards the Mediterranean-facing side, the contracting of day workers is covered, particularly at harvest time, dada su extensión y la premura con que debían ser recogidasgiven the area involved and the speed at which the crops had to be gathered. Se trata asimismo la importancia de la fuerza The importance of animal en unos tiempos en que todavía no había hecho su aparición la maquinaria tal y como la conocemos en la actualidadpower is also described, particularly at a time when the machinery as we know it today had still not appeared.
[[File:8.1_Faneuse_1896._Oleo_de_Emile_Claus.png|frame|Faneuse, 1896. Óleo de Émile Claus. Fuente: ''Émile Claus'' (1849-1924). Paris: Bibliothèque de l Image, 2013, p. 46.]]
