On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Sandwichman wrote:
My recall of events is slightly different, Jim:
1. gene: let's cut work hours
2. Jim: good idea, but how do we keep employers from cutting wages?
3. Sandwichman: by doing our own hours accounting based on Chapman's
theory of hours. see link to power point presentation or manuscript
chapter detailing how this can be done.
This has to be the most pointless discussion since the mice discussed
and concluded that a bell had to be put around the cat's neck--but
when one of them asked "Now, how do we bell the cat?" the only answer
was
4. silence
because none of them had grasped the magic inherent in Chapman's
Theory of Hours.
Reduction of the legal work week is a *political* issue, ie., a matter
of class struggle, not a question of theory. Until a mass
"People's" (ie., left-populist) Party is formed and the Dumbocrats
have gone with the Whigs, cutting work hours without cutting incomes
will never be on anybody's agenda. And if popular disgust with Obama
keeps mounting to the point where a People's Party is formed to
contest the 2012 elections, it will still have no place on that
party's agenda because the central need of the people is vastly
increased public investment with the concomitant establishment of full
employment (~3% of the potential labor force temporarily unemployed).
Then and only then, with full employment a reality and the Labor
Movement reborn, and with the official work-week actually enforced on
the whole economy, could we begin to talk meaningfully about reducing
the official work-week.
Shane Mage
"scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities
that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying
attention to"
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