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Labor and Cost of Pre-Industrial Shirt Production

According to calculations by historian Eve Fisher, producing a single shirt before the widespread adoption of industrial machinery was an extremely labor-intensive process. It required a total of 579 hours of work, with 500 of those hours dedicated specifically to spinning the necessary yarn. When contextualized with modern wages, this effort would be equivalent to a cost of $4,197.75 based on the 2022 US Federal minimum wage.

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