Keith Hudson wrote, > Jospin's nonsensical 35-hour week in France has now been scrapped -- only a > few months after small employers were forced to adopt it.
It would be immensely valuable to me, Keith, if you would elaborate on why you call the 35-hour week "nonsensical". I know very well that there is an entrenched tradition of disparaging the reduction of worktime as a response to unemployment. I have investigated that tradition and found it to be based on vile propaganda and sloppy scholarship. I'm wondering if you have some new insights. Surely, you couldn't simply be thoughtlessly retreading the old canards?
