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TIL using 160 million records, Cambridge researchers found that while
much of Europe remained agricultural, British male agricultural workers
fell from 64% to 42% between 1600-1740 while in goods production they
increased from 28 to 42%. They date the industrial revolution as
beginning in the 1600s.
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|u/Hobgoblin_Khanate - 12 hours
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|how different would it be if they started it from 1700?
|u/UnfortunatelySimple - 4 hours
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|It would be like 1924, headed into a depression.
|u/floofelina - 14 hours
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|What’s the evidence they didn’t die from something, or start mining
|instead?
|u/Beautiful_Welcome_33 - 14 hours
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|The goods they produced, plus mining was industrialized at the time.
|The first useful steam engine was in a coal mine. **Edit: it's also
|there in the friggin' title - they have 160 million records to draw
|from
|u/floofelina - 14 hours
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|1600?
|u/Beautiful_Welcome_33 - 13 hours
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|Thomas Savery invented a steam driven water pump in 1698 that was
|used to remove water from coal mine shafts.
|u/King-in-Council - 13 hours
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|300 years from the first harness of steam to [windows
|98](https://youtu.be/x3ov9USxVxY?si=VFE8aNFZgGXIbmlV) Edit:
|now edited with one of the most 90s songs
|u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 - 13 hours
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|Not sure what you mean. The % of people working in agriculture
|declined slowly over time as farming became more efficient. Where the
|difference went is completely a different set of data, but we know it
|wasn't to jobs on Craigslist. Not many alternatives and parts of the
|population suffered most likely from the losses. These #'s are low,
|so I think they are using a more narrow version than similar stats.
|There's far less commerce, so the types of jobs listed as
|"agriculture" are fewer than our Industrialized world. This is a
|decline in demand for workers as agriculture becomes more efficient.
|It doesn't say anything else.
|u/Astralesean - 2 minutes
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|This isn't unique to England however, Netherlands and Northern Italy had
|even more urbanized labour, and for 1600s, still more mechanized
|u/lousy-site-3456 - 3 hours
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|From - to Between - and It's funny how our brains are apparently
|part of a global consciousness after all because this is breaking apart
|in several languages at the same time.
|u/Scrapheaper - 9 hours
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|And I bet they still blamed immigrants for taking their jobs... see
|Chinese exclusion act of 1800s
|u/Spaghet4Ever - 9 hours
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|»European study »Look in comments »mfs citing American law
|u/Scrapheaper - 6 hours
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|Racism is universal
|u/kvakerok_v2 - 5 hours
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|So is ignorance apparently.
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