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The authors note, ‘the desire for a new variety of goods led to gradual changes in the behaviour of ordinary households in Western Europe’. Gradually, in order to afford the now accessible luxury of sugar, the subsistence economy was abandoned in favour of wage labour. People accepted working longer and harder to acquire these goods, which, according to accounts from the late 18th century, had become essential needs.

But How were the products made?

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