| For the pre-industrial period and the industrial revolution, records of either the number of hours worked per day or days per year are scarce and scattered. |
| I don't buy the idea that the pre-industrial period was a golden age of self-determination and leisure for the vast majority of the British. |
| This is a return to pre-industrial times when artisans ruled the economic scene. |
| Those who believe that modern societies are almost every bit as religious as pre-industrial ones show a similarly broad range of religious positions. |
| While some paint an idyllic picture of pre-industrial or early industrial society, the reality for the masses of working people was anything but idyllic. |
| Much of Africa and the Middle East remains locked in pre-industrial agricultural societies with weak institutions and authoritarian rulers. |
