... that on top of this there is evidence that well-paid male workers took time off when they could. It counters the claims that an industrious revolution or consumer revolution suggest a commitment to hard work, arguing instead that the increase in working hours in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...

.... Although incentives to invest were poor, many peasants commuted labour dues to maximize their profits. A significant minority chose to use some of the rising value of their surpluses in more ostentatious consumption, part of the European ‘Industrious Revolution’ posited by Jan de Vries. commutation...

...This chapter examines the scope and intensity of productive labour and its relationship to consumer aspirations. It demonstrates that changes in consumption demands play a role in the process of industrialization. The first ‘industrious revolution’ within the household sector reinforced significant...

.... and R. Porter , eds. Consumption and the World of Goods (London and New York, 1993 ). de Vries, J.   The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present (Cambridge and New York, 2008 ). Epstein, S. R...

... . The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behaviour and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present (Cambridge, 2008 ). McCants, Anne . ‘ Poor Consumers as Global Consumers: the Diffusion of Tea and Coffee Drinking in the Eighteenth Century ’, Economic History Review...

...The ‘European miracle’ needs to be compared to an East Asian development path. In East Asia efficient institutions fostered great use of labour, an ‘industrious revolution’ path entailing extensive use of family labour and systems of double cropping. The result was a ‘labour-intensive...

.... ‘Industrious Revolution’ Inflation in kind wages peasants plot size population growth poverty rents revolutions subjection peasant Untertänigkeit draught labour dues manual labour dues Handdienst net consumers polarization of wealth Kossäten Krug Leopold labour dues largeholders Berlin...

... the causes of their differing regional distribution and growth trajectories. Historical scholarship has mainly focused on the causes of industrial growth, especially with regard to later factory industrialization. Starting with theories of ‘proto-industrialization’ and the ‘industrious revolution...

... and material growth. This chapter analyzes the role of intensive rice farming in shaping “industrious revolutions” in China and Japan. In the East Asian rice economies, rice not only nourished local communities and the state but circulated as the lifeblood of internal and external trading circuits...

...One from the Many. Christopher M. Meissner, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199924462.003.0002 How much economic integration existed prior to the industrial revolution? Although humans have been attempting to reap the gains from trade...

..., with particular reference to theories of the early modern consumer and ‘Industrious’ Revolutions. The chapter concludes by using this evidence to explore the repercussions of married women's economic position on the women themselves and on the wider pre-industrial economy. cultural approaches to women’s position...