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Do you have any sources for either of these claims? This goes against my general intuition (which could itself be wrong)

• tarsinge 5y ago
  I don’t have a source for this whole question but regarding that intuition: > English peasants likely didn’t work more than 120-150 days a year. That’s about 215-245 days off a year. From https://www.fodors.com/news/news/you-wont-believe-who-got-more-vacation-days-than-you https://www.fodors.com/news/news/you-wont-believe-who-got-mo...
  • watwut 5y ago
    That assumes there is no work out of season. So, no making of bed sheets, no matter king of cloth, candles, fixing tools, no animal care out of season and no work related to small children. No storage maintenance, no baking/cooking.
    • jacobolus 5y ago
      Peasants everywhere work full time, all through the year. For people who are just managing to survive, there is always something that needs doing. Growing or foraging and preparing food (especially manually milling grain); making (starting from raw plant/animal fibers), patching, and cleaning clothing; building hedges, fences, walls, and thatched roofs; making pottery; making and maintaining tools; taking care of animals; .... are extremely labor intensive. To get some idea what life was like for Stuart-period English farmers (and life was much the same in preceding centuries), see the BBC show Tales from the Green Valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_historic_farm_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_historic_farm_series