My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent

Re:My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent by majewsky on Saturday October 30, 2021 @10:07PM (#29053900)

Note that your source does not argue the point you make directly after it. The graph explicitly covers only "non-agricultural activities". As for non-agricultural activities, 1870 marks the early peak of industrialization before unions and worker parties forced schedules down to the now-established 40-hour-per-week mark.

Unfortunately, the primary source for the graph (https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours) does not say anything about agricultural working hours pre-industrialization. They note efficiency increases in agriculture through automation, but since the agricultural workforce declined at the same time, there is no clear answer at least from this source.

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Re:My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent by mensetmanusman on Sunday October 31, 2021 @07:04AM (#29056125)

Thanks for pointing this out. My thought process was trying to highlight that many more of us would have been farmers 100 years ago :) The farmers I know seem to have a 24/7-esque job in terms of all the things they juggle.

The weird thing is that they are so ridiculously productive compared to the past having learned all these new tools, but their compensation is about in line with prior generations, because most all the productivity gains have gone to capital owners.

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