Gain Your Copy Time And Work In England 1750-1830 Constructed By Hans-Joachim Voth Ready In Readable Copy

Makes extremely naive, albeit common, assumptions about the relationship of time and labor, Clock time with its uniform durations is not a reliable way to represent labor before the midth century, so trying to usethth century records to represent labor in terms of clock time is a methodologically flawed approach to thinking about work in this period and one more likely to reproduce modern biases than shed any light.
Did working hours in England increase as a result of the Industrial Revolution In this important study, HansJoachim Voth addresses this question using rigorously analyzed statistical data.
Drawing on this research, Voth has created six datasets for both rural and urban areas over the period
toto reconstruct patterns of leisure and labor.
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