On Fri, 12 May 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
> very often of a seasonal nature. If you read Juliette Schor's "The
> Overworked American", you will discover that the average peasant worked
> half as many hours as the average proletarian during the rise of the
> industrial revolution. That is the reason resistance to the Enclosure Acts
> and bans on hunting was so fierce.
But didn't this have to do with limited food sources and chronic disease
and malnutrition? Peasant societies couldn't sustain year-round work
efforts simply because most folks were hungry most of the time (no
refrigeration, few reserves, salt was a luxury, etc.), right?
-- Dennis
