Per una rivalutazione della storia, del tempo di lavoro (Europa occidentale, XIV-XIX secolo)
Résumé
This article re-examines the question of the duration of work over the long term, using multiple case studies to identify, in their diversity, the daily duration of work, the annual calendar of days actually worked, and the content of labour. This leads us to question the agreed-upon pattern of a three-stage evolution: a) an unmeasured, task-oriented working time before intensive industrialisation; b) a sharp increase linked to the first industrialisation; and c) a continuous decrease from the mid-19th century