engels' pause
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The early phase of the Industrial Revolution, from 1790 to 1840, when British working-class wages stagnated while the per-capita gross domestic product expanded rapidly.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In Britain, for which we have the most complete data, the available historical studies, in particular those of Robert Allen (who gave the name “Engels’ pause” to the long stagnation of wages), suggest that capital's share increased by something like 10 percent of national income, from 35–40 percent in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to around 45–50 percent in the middle of the nineteenth century, when Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto and set to work on Capital."