4 ms·
This 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 o
by timoth3y 7y ago
This 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."
- whatshisface 7y agoThe 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.
- afiori 7y agoIt was a common mindset, historian friends tell me that also shopkeepers in villages would work on a need-money-soon basis. I think that historically the first job with the work ethic of more is better was the merchant.
- xg15 7y agoWhich would support the article's hypothesis that the big change in working time came through capitalism.