Arbeitspapier
Builders' Working Time in Eighteenth Century Madrid
This paper provides the first estimates of the number of days worked per year in the construction sector in Madrid between 1740 and 1810. Using a database of 389,000 observations with over 2.15 million paid days, we demonstrate how the length of the working year in the second half of eighteenth century was very close to the modern standard of 300 days, and that, by the end of the century, building workers—both skilled and unskilled— actually worked around 280 days, a far higher number than suggested by the current estimates for Spain or the figures proposed recently for northern Europe.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: EHES Working Paper ; No. 195
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Particular Labor Markets: Other
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
Economic History: Manufacturing and Construction: Europe: Pre-1913
- Subject
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Spain
pre-industrial labour market
18th century
working year
construction history
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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García-Zúñiga, Mario
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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European Historical Economics Society (EHES)
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s.l.
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- García-Zúñiga, Mario
- European Historical Economics Society (EHES)
Time of origin
- 2020
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