https://piped.video/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo
Sources: Juliet B. Schor, “The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure”
David Rooney, “About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks” E. P. Thompson, “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism” | https://www.jstor.org/stable/649749 James E. Thorold Rogers, “Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English Labour” | https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/rogers/sixcenturies.pdf George Woodcock, “The Tyranny of the Clock,” Published in “War Commentary - For Anarchism” in March, 1944
GDP per capita in England, 1740 to 1840, via Our World in Data | https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-in-the-uk-since-1270 Nominal wages, consumer prices, and real wages in the UK, United Kingdom, 1750 to 1840, via Our World in Data | https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nominal-wages-consumer-prices-and-real-wages-in-the-uk-since-1750
Ironically, if a job’s workload starts to require fewer people, it’s often harder for any individual to step away. In the past, there were more people working a plot of land, so there was more ability to cover for people stepping away. Now with only one person doing all the work, that person can’t take time off or the whole thing collapses.