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Working Hours Time Series (Historical) #200

Open rufuspollock opened 7 years ago

rufuspollock commented 7 years ago

Good set of tables in Huberman and Minns (2007): The times they are not changin’: Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870–2000

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/minns/Huberman_Minns_EEH_2007.pdf

More recent cross-national time series can probably be found from ILO or national statistical agencies.

See also Voth (1998) Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London for evidence on work hours in London between 1750 and 1800 https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/economics/history/paper21/21voth.pdf