Working time, dinner time, serving time: labour and law in industrialization
Many economic historians agree that increased labour inputs contributed to Britain’s primary industrialisation. Voluntary self-exploitation by workers to purchase new consumer goods is one common explanation, but it sits uneasily with evidence of poverty, child labour, popular protest, an...
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University of Oxford
2018
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