\paperw4800 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Before the industrial revolution the rhythm of human life was determined by the seasons. Peasants' lives were most closely based on this r
hythm, but all activities were conditioned by variations in the length of the day and the climate. Craftsmen were often organized into guilds, subdivided according to the type of activity carried out, whose role it was to protect and assist their members
. Our knowledge of how work was done in the past often comes to us from paintings depicting religious or mythological scenes. It was not until the seventeenth century that artists began to illustrate peopleÆs daily lives, representing the most ordinary a
ctivities with great realism. The social changes that occurred in the nineteenth century led some artists to make use of their work to denounce the exploitation and alienation of the working class in industrial society.
