The 33-24 hour "average" workweek is a mean which averages together full-time and part-time workers some of whom are working less than 10 hours a week. The mean can thus be virtually meaningless. What you need to look at is the actual distribution of the hours of work, not averages.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Gar Lipow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That is the point. The 40 hour week is very close to the shortest time > that still leaves people exhausted. I don't know exactly where the line is, > but I suspect that any reduction susbstantially below that would be a > qualitative rather than quanitative change - as you say beginning to turn > into freedom. Of course we want as much as we can get, but I suspect that > even a 35 hour week might cross that line. A 30 hour week I'm almost > certain would. Below that - well great. > > The average workweek is about 33-34 hours. That's per employed person. The > average adult works 3-4 hours a day, and has 5 hours of leisure per day > (half of it spent watching TV). The average employed person works about 5-6 > hours a day. The average employed person with a child under 6 has 3-4 hours > of leisure per day. I think this overwork thing may be overdone. > > http://bls.gov/news.release/archives/atus_06222012.htm > > Doug > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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