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> The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification. Where can i read more about this
by MichaelMoser123 7y ago
> The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification.
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.
- ryanmercer 7y ago>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.
- MichaelMoser123 7y agothe 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.
- bluntfang 7y ago>Where can i read more about this assertion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_St... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement
- etripe 7y agoBullshit Jobs by David Graeber goes into it tangentially, as part of making a greater point.