Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by ryanmercer on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:31AM
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>I was not aware that serfdom would specify such details as the number of hours.
I'm not sure they did, but your work day was effectively limited to when the sun was up. Candles were quite expensive well through the middle ages as they were mostly made from beeswax, lower class persons would use fires or candles made from soaking things like rushes in animal fat - neither of which provided light conducive to any sort of work.
Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by MichaelMoser123 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:48AM
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the landlord still had to allow his serfs to work their own plot/cottage on occasion; so they had to agree on some form of time management, even without clocks or candles.
Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by etripe on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:36AM
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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber goes into it tangentially, as part of making a greater point.
Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
by bluntfang on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:34AM
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>Where can i read more about this assertion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_St...
Where can i read more about this assertion? I was not aware that serfdom would specify such details as the number of hours. I guess that serfdom would be a very different institution in each country, or even within each province; (I guess corvée service might have been a more detailed contract, but I am not aware of the details) so I would like to hear some more details.