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Why this subject

Hiring by the day is old and poorly recorded. It sits at the edge of most statistical systems, which were built around continuous employment with a single employer, and it appears in the historical record mainly through the people who complained about it, regulated it or tried to enumerate it. That combination — an old arrangement, thin records, and repeated attempts to measure it — makes it an unusually clear case for looking at how social measurement works and where it breaks.

Daywork covers three strands: field studies of open-air and informal hiring, the statistical categories used to classify work that falls outside the standard employment relationship, and the historical scholarship on task-based work before and during industrialisation.

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Subjects are dropped when the evidence turns out to rest on a single unreplicated source, when the only available figures come from advocacy material with no method described, or when the honest summary would be that nobody knows.

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