Was There an ‘Industrious Revolution’ Before the Industrial Revolution? An Empirical Exercise for England, c. 1300-1830

By R. Allen, Jacob Weisdorf. 2011

158 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, History, Political Science and International Relations

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/70f917d10044561b37fa1c306987a8c5d11d83da

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• Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260–1850 (2019, unknown): “More work on the intensive margin aligns with Robert Allen’s allusion to Britain’s Industrial Revolution as ‘1% inspiration and 99% perspiration’ (Allen, 2011, p. 33), but contradicts the usual assumption that the pre-industrial working year was always and everywhere 250 days long (e.g. Allen and…”