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		cafard on Jan 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coming to an office near you The US was primarily agricultural, but there was quite a lot of manufacturing, commercial, and government employment back then. So I think that "at all" is putting it too strongly.

cm2012 on Jan 16, 2014 [–]

Aristocratic work in particular was not so different from today.

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