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lazyjones on Aug 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than toda...

> Cars, computers, phones, and health insurance also didn't exist back then, and neither did social mobility.

Also: proper lighting, especially outdoors. An important prerequisite for many jobs, so the length of a work day had natural limits.

NeedMoreTea on Aug 22, 2019 [–]

That mostly meant rising earlier, with the light, rather than the arbitrary hours of today enabled by artificial light. Only during the depths of winter or those in the most northern or southern latitudes had appreciable shortening.

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