Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by icebraining on Thursday August 22, 2019 @04:14AM
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What kind of french farmers? The land owners with their subsidized businesses, or the hired hands?
Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by coldtea on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:23AM
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No, small farm owners (domestic professional production of e.g. wine, cheese, etc, but not in any large quantity).
And with no use of "hired hands" in the sense of large "factory-like" farms.
(Not that there's anything great to come home dead tired from a 10 hour day at the office + commute, and then have the "amazing" convenience to "order food for dinner").
You can still see it in societies that don't have our lifestyles. Go to a blue zone like in Ikaria (where people live in much longer age than average, often reaching 90-100). People tend to their farms some time of the season, do things leisurely, take noon naps, stay up late with friends to eat and drink (late as in, 2-3 am is not uncommon), and so on. Giving less fucks seems a major factor in those "blue zones" (I've also researched a similar one in Italy).
Heck, several french farmers have told me how their grown children in supposedly fancy city jobs (programming, banking, etc) work twice as much as they ever did, and still have a less enjoyable lifestyle.