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| Subject: Compared to you and me, the feudal serfs had it easy Fri Jan 04, 2019 5:48 pm | |
| Back at work yet, or still enjoying your summer break? Either way, you probably wish you had more annual leave. I could tell you to count your blessings, that today’s full-time workers get much longer holidays than workers have ever had.
But maybe that isn't true. It’s certainly true that we get longer holidays and work fewer hours than workers did in the 19th century but, according to the sociologist Juliet Schor, the 19th century – not long after the end of the Industrial Revolution – was an aberration in the history of human labour.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/compared-to-you-and-me-the-feudal-serfs-had-it-easy-20190104-p50pkb.html |
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