Is it true that the seasonality of the workforce resulted in extended unemployment during the second half of the eighteenth century?

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It is true that the seasonality of the workforce resulted in extended unemployment during the second half of the eighteenth century. Many job searchers had to wait for weeks, sleeping on the streets or under bridges. Others went to the Casual Wards run by the Poor Law authorities, while some lived in Night Refuges established by private citizens. After winter, when the need for labour in rural areas started to increase in some places, some people moved back there. But most people looked for odd employment, which was hard to come by until the middle of the nineteenth century.

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