Etymology

Engels' pause

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by economic historian Robert C. Allen in 2009 and named after German philosopher Friedrich Engels, who described the workers' situation in The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.