Publication
Title
Fashionably late? Time, work and the industrious revolution in early modern Antwerp (1585-1795)
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Abstract
Drawing evidence from the proceedings of the Antwerp hoogere Vierschaer (the local criminal court), the article challenges some key features from Jan de Vries’ hypothesis of the Industrious Revolution. Mesmerised by an endless variety of fashionable and exotic consumer goods, eighteenth-century people would have slashed their leisure time in a variety of ways. Labour input would have been forced up on a daily, weekly and annual base. However, time-budget analysis of Antwerp labour rhythms evidences a much more complex picture, which does not really hint at an industrious revolution but rather reveals invariable industriousness.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Continuity and change : a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies. - Cambridge, 1986, currens
Publication
Cambridge : 2020
ISSN
0268-4160 [print]
1469-218X [online]
DOI
10.1017/S0268416020000260
Volume/pages
35 :3 (2020) , p. 255-279
ISI
000600600900002
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UAntwerpen
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Last edited 02.10.2024
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