Short and interesting read to start your workweek. Medieval working hours vs industrial work hours. TLDR: the lowly medieval peasant likely didn’t work more than 8 hrs a day, with naps and meals breaking up the workday, and many holidays throughout the year. The urban lower classes of the industrial revolution on the other hand….well…Dickens and all that. Worked to death in squalid conditions. Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's
Short and interesting read to start your workweek. Medieval working hours vs industrial work hours. TLDR: the lowly medieval peasant likely didn’t work more than 8 hrs a day, with naps and meals breaking up the workday, and many holidays throughout the year. The urban lower classes of the industrial revolution on the other hand….well…Dickens and all that. Worked to death in squalid conditions.