• Meron35@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It depends on when in history you are comparing from. For most of human history, humans as hunter gatherers worked on average only 3-8 hours each day.

    Agrarian societies worked similar number of days each year, but work was heavily dependent on weather and seasons. It was the sudden shift to proto industrialisation and industrialisation that brought about an extreme increase to 60-80 hour work weeks, but in the spam of human history this is a very small minority.

    1. The working week in manufacturing since 1820 | How Was Life? Volume II : New Perspectives on Well-being and Global Inequality since 1820 | OECD iLibrary - https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/11e27aff-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/11e27aff-en