reading a book about daily life in 1800s now and probably the most viscerally alien part of it, relative to current fabric of life, is how much more everyone worked. people would work sunup to sundown, 6 days a week, to barely make enough wage to buy food for themselves
children worked all the time in extremely unproductive fashion (~10% of adult wage?). 6 year olds would help at home with their parents labor, or extra children or orphans would be employed in factories in 12 hour shifts, 6 days a week. children worked in mines. etc.
