Time and work in eighteenth-century London
Witnesses' accounts are used to analyse changes in working hours between 1750 and 1800. Two findings stand out. The paper demonstrates that the information contained in witnesses' accounts allows us to reconstruct historical time-budgets, and provides extensive tests of the new method. It...
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University of Oxford
1997
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