Time and Work in England 1750-1830 (Hardcover)


Did the Industrial Revolution bring about an increase in working hours? This is the first rigorous statistical analysis of patterns of labour and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Hans-Joachim Voth uses court records to reconstruct time use in both rural and urban areas in this innovative and important study.

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Did the Industrial Revolution bring about an increase in working hours? This is the first rigorous statistical analysis of patterns of labour and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Hans-Joachim Voth uses court records to reconstruct time use in both rural and urban areas in this innovative and important study.

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General

Imprint

Clarendon Press

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Oxford Historical Monographs

Release date

2001

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First published

March 2001

Authors

Dimensions

216 x 138 x 28mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

312

ISBN-13

978-0-19-924194-1

Barcode

9780199241941

Categories

LSN

0-19-924194-5



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