ABSTRACT In his classic works on the industrious revolution, Jan de Vries argues that demand for new consumer goods trigged eighteenth century Europeans to work more. This implies that industrious behaviour and new consumption patterns were two parallel and interdependent processes that preceded the industrial revolution. However, there is an alternative explanation for any increase in labour output on household level, namely that the labourers were forced to work more to meet ends. An indication of this could be that day labourers’ relative wages decreased over time. In this article, we investigate this by studying wages from annual and casual labour in southern Sweden and compare their levels with consumption baskets.

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在工作的男人们。瑞典南部的工资和勤劳1500–1850年

摘要扬·德·弗里斯（Jan de Vries）在其关于辛勤革命的经典著作中指出，对新消费品的需求促使18世纪的欧洲人努力工作。这意味着勤劳的行为和新的消费方式是工业革命之前的两个平行且相互依存的过程。但是，还有另一种解释可以解释家庭水平上劳动产出的增加，即，劳动者被迫更多地工作来达到目的。这可能表明，当日劳动者的相对工资随着时间的推移而下降。在本文中，我们将通过研究瑞典南部年度和临时工的工资并将其与消费篮子的水平进行比较来对此进行调查。