Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe

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No matter how good or bad, special things have happened over the past few thousand years. A group of human tribes scattered over agricultural land before industrialization has been accelerated by the Internet and large multinational companies and has begun to organize large-scale efforts to shape everything from cities and national states to the world market economy . Postmodernists may think that the emergence of these structures is only a product of random historical circumstances, but once historical scorpions are pushed back into history, it is impossible to reproduce at least some degree of similarity is. They may take a neutral or negative position on the historical direction and the present situation to date.

The most obvious difference between the economy before the Industrial Revolution and the modern economy is how much progress has been made in living standards and productivity. Europe before industrialization is not a suitable time to live. Society is destroyed by war, famine, epidemic diseases, and any progress is progressing with the speed of snail. The Industrial Revolution brought ongoing growth in per capita productivity and living standards. And for the first time, it brought indicator function to personnel affairs. After the annual compound annual growth rate reaches 200 years, per capita GDP has now reached 100 times that of 1800. The purpose of this article is not to reexamine the magical discontinuity that the industrial revolution represents in this process. History of humankind, but European studies before industrialization, can remind people how devious life is in the past.

Like the development of companies and industries in the industrial revolution era, the development of labor unions is also uneven and chaotic. Organizing workers to negotiate for higher wages, shorter times and better conditions is usually focused on a single company, industry or region. Early attempts to combine several unions into state organizations resulted in different results. Expansion of trade unions and their impacts are often caused by well-known events such as strikes, riots, disasters, and as a result workers from other companies and industry will join trade unions. (In strikes, union members who are organizations refuse to compel the company to meet unions' requirements, such as increasing wages or shortening time.