Broadberry, Stephen; Campbell, Bruce M.S.; van Leeuwen, Bas - In: Explorations in Economic History 50 (2013) 1, pp. 16-27
Britain's labour force industrialised early. The industrial and service sectors already accounted for 40% of the labour force in 1381, and a substantial further shift of labour out of agriculture occurred between 1522 and 1700. From the early seventeenth century rising agricultural labour...