Sandwichman asks:
>> The elephant is that the demand for limitation of the hours of work
>> played a key role in the growth of the labor movement and the left up
>> until the late 1950s and early 1960s and plays no role today. What is
>> that about? The elephant is that the history of the movement for
>> shorter hours and of the arguments behind that movement seems entirely
>> forgotten by most people on the left and in labor. What happened?
Hmm. How about the post WWII expansion of state employment? If we can assume
there are some laborers who want to work less, and others who want to make more
money, I can imagine the former gravitating toward public employment, where the
hours worked compared to compensation received is pretty good. Just a thought
in support of my evolving belief that demographic self-selection is the answer
to alot of questions.
David Shemano
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