It's short in geological time, but not if you accept that capitalism is only about 200 years old.
Regarding the allegedly supine U.S. labor movement, the Euro movement is arguably not supine though there isn't much difference in terms of length of the work week. With the partial exception of France the Europeans do not seem to have taken increased productivity in the form of shorter hours, unless you take more vacation/sick leave as reduced work week. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > 61 years is a rather short period in historical terms. Hence concern > with the length is uncalled for and mere quibbling. And Gene's time > frame would link the present crisis to the resolution (Depression and > WW2) of the preceding one, which had immensely enhanced the power of > labor. Then the beginning of the 2d crisis is marked by capital's > counter-offensive, culminating in the Carter-Reagan presidency. > Interesting. I'm not arguing for Gene's hypothesis but mocking what he > calls mere arm-waving at it. > > Carrol > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
