Re:Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you
by cia_plant on Sunday September 01, 2013 @01:46PM
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That evidence would be convincing if peasants were enticed from working in the traditional arrangements by the lure of working in a factory; but as I understand it the situation was more complicated. Industrialization proceeded alongside the active dismantling of the feudal property system and the enclosure of formerly common land. A former peasant who became a factory worker may have gone through the intermediate step of being evicted from their land and becoming a vagrant.
Edit: wrote this comment before seeing the other reply, which makes almost exactly the same point
Edit: wrote this comment before seeing the other reply, which makes almost exactly the same point