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Men at work. Wages and industriousness in southern Sweden 1500–1850

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  • Kathryn E. Gary
  • Mats Olsson

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In his classic works on the industrious revolution, Jan de Vries argues that demand for new consumer goods trigged eighteenth century Europeans to work more. This implies that industrious behaviour and new consumption patterns were two parallel and interdependent processes that preceded the industrial revolution. However, there is an alternative explanation for any increase in labour output on household level, namely that the labourers were forced to work more to meet ends. An indication of this could be that day labourers’ relative wages decreased over time. In this article, we investigate this by studying wages from annual and casual labour in southern Sweden and compare their levels with consumption baskets.

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  • Kathryn E. Gary & Mats Olsson, 2020. "Men at work. Wages and industriousness in southern Sweden 1500–1850," Scandinavian Economic History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(2), pages 112-128, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:sehrxx:v:68:y:2020:i:2:p:112-128
    DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2019.1704859
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    1. Benjamin Schneider, 2022. "Good Jobs and Bad Jobs in History," Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers _202, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    2. Falk, Marcus & Bengtsson, Erik & Olsson, Mats, 2023. "Wealth, work, and industriousness, 1670–1860: Evidence from rural Swedish probates," Lund Papers in Economic History 251, Lund University, Department of Economic History.
    3. Mario García‐Zúñiga & Ernesto LóPEZ LOSA, 2021. "Skills and human capital in eighteenth‐century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)†," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(3), pages 691-720, August.
    4. Sara Horrell, 2023. "Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–1869," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 76(4), pages 1023-1050, November.

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