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Buut then I don't need to be convinced on this topic. By the late 80s (or earlier) a horrifying number of my students were working 20 hours or more a week (while carrying a full class load). That made conference time sometimes hard to schedule, & very effectively removed thinking from their student life. Whitman's famous lines became a bad jest. This increase in work (as well as various other increased pressures) probably is _one_ of the factors dampening student political involvement. Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Walker Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:34 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] 40 hour week designed to wear people out, turn them into consumers? Here's the kind of data that is meaningful: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-001-x/2008103/pdf/10534-eng.pdf Inline image 1 On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: 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) -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
