Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
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Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
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Re: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
#2And people has to work from young age if I am not wrong...and because they don't have electricity they also work shorter hours.
Re: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
#3Than we.
Re: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
#4Than we.
do.
Re: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
#5Than we.
Thank you for your contribution.
Re: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
#6Than we.
Common usage indicates that "than us" is just fine. Remember English grammar doesn't come from a grammar book - grammar books are merely imperfect attempts to describe common English usage.
Re: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
#7This is true, and it's interesting.
However, it's also important to keep in mind that there was also a lot of grinding poverty and near-starvation during the off-seasons.
A peasant family might not have been working during the winter, but its a bit misleading to view that period as "leisure time."
Re: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
#8This article is somewhat surprising. It does not seem to account for variation in the intensity of work at different times, for example planting and harvest. At those times it's hard to imagine that people worked anything less than dawn to dusk to ensure they had food for the next year.
Re: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
#9Than we.
Common usage indicates that "than us" is just fine. Remember English grammar doesn't come from a grammar book - grammar books are merely imperfect attempts to describe common English usage.
Common usage comes from users. Us have every right to apply our pressure on the common usage.
Re: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
#10This is true, and it's interesting. However, it's also important to keep in mind that there was also a lot of grinding poverty and near-starvation during the off-seasons. A peasant family might not have been working during the winter, but its a bit misleading to view that period as "leisure time."
The article argues that even when they had a chance to work more they didn't. Maybe they were all being shortsighted, or maybe that happened in a brief climactic golden age.