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Time and Work in England 1750-1830
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Time and Work in England 1750-1830 Whether people worked harder during the industrial revolution is a question with "Oomph!" as Deirdre McCloskey would say. Great economic historians from Marx to E. P. Thompson have addressed it. More recently, Robert Fogel, Jan de Vries and John Hatcher have entered the fray. Is there anything left to say? Time and Work in England 1750-1830 brings both new evidence and a new approach to this celebrated issue. The "Oomph!" is in the implications. First, time use bears on the role of technical change in industrialization. Modern economic historians have debunked the old-fashioned view of the industrial revolution as involving rapid technical progress by showing that increases in factor inputs accounted for a large part of growth. As Nick Crafts first noted total factor productivity growth would need further reduction if more accurate estimates of labour input became available which scaled up those based on...
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