Branko Milanovic posted a chart on Twitter showing the average annual hours worked showing, among other things, that people worked twice as many hours during the industrial revolution: From 1816 to 1851, the number of hours fell by about 0.14% per year:
The long trend in labor hours
The long trend in labor hours
The long trend in labor hours
Branko Milanovic posted a chart on Twitter showing the average annual hours worked showing, among other things, that people worked twice as many hours during the industrial revolution: From 1816 to 1851, the number of hours fell by about 0.14% per year: