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The Evolution of Leisure in the Industrial Age
By 1800, the average British male is working about 3,000 hours a year. And they don't do any domestic work in that period. So as I say, it's a very high labor input society on the eve of the industrial revolution. It raises this issue about, well, was there significant change in terms of the way people behaved as we moved towards this new world?