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Time and work in England 1750-1830

by Hans-Joachim Voth

2000 304 pages eng

"Did working hours in England increase as a result of the Industrial Revolution? Marx said so, and so did E.P. Thompson; but where was the evidence to support this belief? Literary source are difficult to interpret, wage books are few and hardly representative, and clergymen writing about the sloth …

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