Office workers vs medieval serfs
 

Graeber / Wengrow, 548, in endnote: "The proposal that medieval European peasants worked fewer hours overall than contemporary American office workers was first, famously, made by the American sociologist Juliet Schor in The Overworked American (1991). It has been contested but appears to have stood the test of time"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

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