The average American works more hours than a medieval peasant

Think you’re working less than peasants did way back in the medieval ages? Although jobs have changed significantly since then, chances are, you’re probably wrong.

Research from Juliet Schor, currently a Professor of Sociology at Boston College, from her text The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, shows this isn’t the case. The average American worker in 1987 was working about 1,949 hours annually, while an adult male peasant in 13th-century U.K. racked up approximately 1620 yearly. Schor provides details in the text about how working hours have changed over centuries, and why.

You might be thinking, “that’s nice and all, but it isn’t the ’80s anymore — how are we doing in the 21st century?”

Well, the average American employee now reportedly works slightly less at 1,811 hours annually, based on information from a Pew analysis of 2015 Labor Department data — the most recent data available.

How workers hours stand up against the past

So, how do the hours stack up across various generations and time periods in history — both in the U.S. and the U.K.? While each group had its own estimated methodology, here’s the amount of working hours various groups listed in the research had, from least to most:

Casual laborer, U.K. (14th century): 1,440 hours
Adult male peasant, U.K. (13th century): 1,620 hours
Average worker, U.S. (2015): 1,811 hours
Manufacturing workers, U.K. (1988): 1856 hours
Average worker, U.S. (1987): 1,949 hours
Farmer-miner, adult male, U.K. (1400-1600): 1,980 hours
English worker (Middle Ages): 2,309 hours


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This is perfectly equivalent Because building a wall in the 13th or 14th century is done exactly the same way it is done today right?

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In tech industry, it's not uncommon to work 60 hours/week, while also being on call 24 hours. Your ass pretty much belongs to the company. And unlike medieval work where you got to be outside and move/exercise your body and get fresh air, you just sit around on your ass while unending mental stress takes its toll. Deadlines, meetings, managers contsntly interrupting, death marches, it never ends. And if you fuck up once, they get rid of you. No loyalty whatsoever.

Its your fate to slave for the Jews, goyim!

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GEE IT'S LIKE SOME JOBS REQUIRE MORE WORK OR SOMETHING!

Do we die by the age of 40 tho?

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This is why you need neetbux

It's the only way to beat the system

Sounds like Communism.

So whaf? I might work longer, but I'll bet my work is also easier. And I definitely own and enjoy pleasantries no peasant could ever dream of. Such is life in a capitalist state not (too) infested with Jews.

a bunch of dudes who enjoy being wageslaves

As a modern wageslave, your soul dies long before 40.

I grew up on a farm in East Europe. Not a massive industrialized farm, but a subsistance farm my great grandmother owned, it brought in enough food to feed her family and that's about it. The work day for fifteen year old me was twelve to sixteen hours and consists of more intense labor than sitting in a cubicle. I had parts of skin just rub off on my palms, I got plantar fasciitis in both feet multiple times, the body just begins to break down because you're frantically working to bring the harvest in by the deadline – if the crop dies on the field you die. In terms of money, nothing grown was traded for money, her only source of income was her husbands military pension from the war, equivalent to about $100 a month. The money box even had some silver German coins from the 1600s, that's how rarely it got used.
These retards probably made the absurd claim that since a farmer doesn't sell his crops, he's not working. Or even dumber - a farmer "does not work" except to sow and reap - and then averaged the days he "didn't work".
Farmers do work between harvests, especially subsistence farmers. Sunday was the only day we did not work, this wasn't because of some religious bullshit, it was because we needed at least one day to heal before next weeks work. Priests just took that rest day for religious purposes. The only time we generally did not "work" the field was during winter, but even then just surviving took work. If you wanted a hot meal you had to get up at four in the morning, get dressed, go off in the nearby forest, cut off a few branches, tie them to the sled, bring them back, hack them into smaller pieces, and put them on the fire. By that time it's almost eight oclock, and if someone wants to tell me four hours backbreaking labor in freezing cold isn't equivalent to eight hours of a car salesman filling out forms… they can get fucked.
About the only good thing about living on a farm is the girls, and that's only because sex was the only form of entertainment.

tl;dr fuck off commies

Joke's on you goyim, the work week in the middle ages was 15-20 hours, and you had afternoon naps too.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
>Women and children in England were granted the ten-hour day in 1847.
In medieval times you worked while there was light in the sky to see with, period.

Cry me a fucking river

Wasn't the 13th century part of the Middle Ages?

fair trade tbh

No, in fact it's faster in the modern day.

not a fair trade unless you're a soulless chink bugman/zogbot amerimutt
can americans even be considered human at this point tbh

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t. retard who doesn't know how infant mortality works

Agricultural school
learn how to farm

Yes. I don't know why they divided those into two separate categories unless by "English worker" they're referring to free serfs. England probably isn't the best example for this sort of study either since they had a disproportionately large amount of peasants compared to mainland Europe and they tended to treat them like shit more than the mainlanders too. That's why there were so many peasant revolts there.

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You enjoy pleasantries that even millionaires couldn't enjoy. No Carnegie or Rockefeller could ever enjoy blueberries preserved in a refrigerator during winter-time during his lifetime.

Are you retarded? Have you ever heard of something called a home kept cool during the winter? Also to all those people saying peasents today live better then kings, that is a deception. The kikes have had iron chariots/cars with chains and mufflers amongst other (((modern technology))) as far back as the prophet isaiah see isaiah 3:18-19 of the Bible, at the least. Fuck, the egyptians had scalar based technology read, tesla electrical devices since biblical times until the kikes fucked them over.

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University agricultural education has largely been subverted by the agrochemical companies. Instead learning about permaculture and restorative agriculture is much more productive.

These pleasantries are pointless when the society that create them is destroying the very social fabric humans require to derive an fulfilling and meaningful existence.

Don't let your memes be dreams.

Thanks a lot for making me look up your Bible verses, nigger. For those who don't want to, here's what it says in the King James Version, which you must be referring to, because every other version uses more appropriate modern terms for jewelry and shit:
In other words, bad example.
Here's some better ones:
God drove a Plymouth:
Moses enjoyed riding a motorcycle:
Joshua did likewise:
Jesus drove a Honda but didn't brag about it, because in his own words:
They even had cigarettes back then:
Now go kys, faggot.
Look it up for yourselves.

t. pseudonymous imageboard biblical scholar

So now we are back to blaming God for (((climate change)))?

you never worked a day in your life in a farm have you?

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That explains a lot, actually

Are you retarded?

Your sarcasm meter appears to be broken

THIRD POSITION
Communism is garbage and capitalism works, but its excesses drain the soul and spirit of a people and a country, and must be reigned in.

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And? Modern technologies afford us all luxuries no king ever dreamt of. But that's completely unrelated to the modern working culture, where 40-70 hour weeks are standard, and that's just paid hours. Not including people being on call in their off hours. It's completely fucked. I'm not communist, there's nothing wrong with having classes, rich, poor, whatever, but this shit is ridiculous.

I thought Americans were lazy and thats why we have to bring in muds though?

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Medieval villages would have communal farms, with every family working. It wasn't one family to a farm, like you were doing, where one kids has to run around and do everything as his grandmother sits around in the house.

The average American also makes more money and has more buying power than the average medieval peasant

My great grandma, and there were two dozen other people there.

How is it you survived the winters if you cut the branches during the winter? The branches would never have had time to dry out you fag. That's why you cut the wood before winter and then let it fucking dry out to use later in the year. If you hadn't been lazy/busy you would have piled up wood before winter instead of wasting so much time, which you wouldn't have survived, on gettting wood in winter. You are just larping like a fag.

Fucking lol this was actually done, you're telling me what happened is impossible.

But, we're doing something besides gathering food

Truth.

It's not that it's "impossible" but that it's inefficient and only retards would not stock up on firewoood BEFORE a cold season. Even people in northern rural California have a year round ready supply of firewood. You should use some of those coins and get some sheet plastic so you could save your crops from the early frost by building a cheap green house.

lol wageys

bmp

Yes because working in a modern factory with OSHA standards and better wages than office drones is the same than shoveling shit and plague cadavers while barefoot in the rain

Nice try leftypol

when you have to be around subhuman mongrel amiermutts, spics, niggers and feminist women who can destroy your career and life on whim, i'll take being a fucking peasant over that shit

bmp last time

(((you)))

They didn't have to deal with kike contracting companies back then that try to stretch a project out for years to cheat their client out of millions of dollars

You should read up on how long public works projects of the medieval ages, much less castles, forts, and churches, took to build back then.

The industrial revolution was a disaster, what else is new.

Can confirm 26 and i'm done.

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They didn't back then either you fucking retard.
The kike media always tries to make the past sound horrible so you accept the present prison they've constructed.
AVERAGE was lower, mostly because of childhood mortality. The weak died out.

The strong have always had the same lifespans. Plenty of people in history lived to 70-90+.

wew

There is no such thing as the "tech industry", lol. And "working"sitting at a desk 60 hours/week is fuck all. Video game addicts pull double that in a week easily, and yes they are performing "work", just not the sort of "work" you normally get paid for.
Sitting down performing physically undemanding tasks, the horror!
Did you know that in the offshore oil and shipping industries the normal week is 84 hours (12hrs/day) but may stretch to 120 hours (16hrs/day)?
There is no going home at the end of the shift, you are on call 24 hours a day by default.
Sitting in an office for 60 hours a week is not hard work, don't even lie and pretend that you're working the whole time.
don't lie and claim that desk work is "harder" because it causes "stress".
The greatest risk you face at work is a fucking paper cut. Meanwhile men with jobs that actually matter to society are putting in 12 hour days, working with equipment and forces that can kill you given the slightest chance, and making more than you in the process.
tl;dr 60 hours week is fuck all and your job is not stressful, you simply have never worked an actually stressful job to compare it to.
Filling in boxes on a webpage template isn't "tech".

And yes, of course peasants had to work less. They lived on commons and grew their own food. They didn't have to convert their labour back into currency then see what it was worth. A large chunk of their labour went directly into food production for their own consumption, so none of its value was taken by a jew middle man.
It should be obvious that modern workers will have to put in more hours to survive, because they're not only working for their own food but to feed the boss, and the HR department (makework jobs given to women as stealthy wealth redistribution), and the share holders.

Notre dame or whatver it's called took hundreds of years to build because of the problems you just mentioned.
It's like you think kikes are new or something. go do some research.

So did Feudalism. Neither are optimal, and neither will carry us to the future. The fact is that Communism isn't the solution, but I believe Socialism is. And that means the white workers own the means of production.

yes, it is an unfair comparison because not habing labor-saving devices somehow made the work take less time

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no, but I'll respond to your dildo-eating post with that to bump this thread and trigger the other asswipe

Yes, Goy, enjoy those meaningless "pleasantries". Good, good.

When renewables hit, people like you won't be qualified for cleaning toilets.

Stating that, in an overall bad situation, certain people have it worse misses the point, namely that both of you are ensnared in a system of marginalism, created by the echo-people who skim off your work and have you perform shit-labor… but I'm sure they are quite happy to see you shit-talk your fellow slave as your enemy to show how tough you are.

it's not about work. it's about the money system, namely banks lending out money and expecting interest back. they make money out of nothing, but in return you are expected to do actual work and pay it back, plus extra.

Fixed that for ya OP

a 3rd of Americans cannot afford to rent an Apartment, 2.1 trillion went missing from the federal Budget, 5 to 7 trillion evaporated into the middle east.
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People during the agricultural revolution lived on a limited, almost entirely grain, diet. Peasants were constantly plagued by disease or raids, and the average lifespan was in the forties.

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Before the agricultural revolution, humans were at their healthiest, we didn't live in high enough concentrations for diseases like the plague to be a problem, we didn't live under Kings, and we had hours of leisure time when we weren't hunting.

I'm happy to work less and live longer.

The average medieval peasant had to stop work when it got dark, which became unnecessary with the invention of the electric light

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more like Doctors back then were against washing their hands and also spent an equal amount of time around dead bodies.

Fucking movement to get doctors to practice basic hygiene was meant with resistance from what I hear.

but hey keep subjecting yourself to a stupid mentality of "the weak die out" in regards to single people.