Hi, pen-lers. I'm back after a hiatus. NPR had a report on May Day this morning in which it was said, correctly, taht it was originally an American holiday coming out of the struggle for the 40 hour work week. The report then went on to say that May Day has been lately celebrated mostly in Communist countries, and that the Chinese government just instituted a law mandating a no-more-than 40 hour workweek as response to absurd hours developing the new private sector. the genneral tenor was, benighted Reds, how sad for them. They did not address the facts revealed by Juliet Schor about how the US workweek is well above 40 hours, although these were the subject of a lively discussion in the business press when they came out. I'm writing a paper on Marx on commodity fetishism. Bibliographical cites that pen-l-ers have found helpful are requested. Thanks in advance. --Justin Schwartz
