Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London

Hans-Joachim Voth

doi:10.1017/S0022050700019872

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Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London

Hans-Joachim Voth

Journal of Economic History 58(1), pp. 29-58 (1998)

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Abstract

Witnesses' accounts are used to analyze changes in working hours between 1750 and 1800. The number of annual working hours changed rapidly between the middle and the end of the eighteenth century.

Keywords: working hours, industrious revolution, labor, eighteenth century, London
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700019872
Canonical: https://www.jvoth.com/papers/time-and-work-18th-century-london.html

Hans-Joachim Voth (1998). “Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London.” Journal of Economic History.