me: >> I'd expect that cutting the hours of work would increase output per >> worker (all else constant, of course). But it doesn't lead to a >> continuous increase in output per worker the way technical change does >> -- unless we continually decrease working hours. Good idea, but will >> capitalism allow it?
Sandwichman wrote: > Have in the past. if a 1 hour cut in hours per week increases hourly productivity by (say) 7% over a year's period, after awhile you'd run out of room for further work-hours cuts. What would you say is the connection (on average, in the real world) between cuts in hours per week and increases in hourly productivity?? (Of course, the "productivity" work time typically does not include the free-time created as part of its numerator. However, work time might produce goods or services that make unpaid time more enjoyable.) -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
