On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com> wrote:

Tom, this is also a general invitation to present your books and concepts to the p2p foundation audience, our blog is a top 2% retweeted blog ...

I don't have time for the moment to explore your ideas in depth myself,

Michel

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@gmail.com> wrote:

Michel et al.,

In my view one of the most inspirational historical experiences with a shorter day for full pay was achieved in the Newcastle engineers' strike of 1871 for the nine-hour day. The success of that struggle inspired a wave of emulation across the U.K. and (at least) Canada. I retell the story of that strike, based mainly on the contemporary account of John Burnett, in the first chapter of my manuscript, "Jobs, Liberty and the Bottom Line," in which I also present a commons-based (Elinor Ostrom) strategy from restarting a dynamic shorter work time movement.

http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.com/p/jobs-liberty-and-bottom-line.html

best

Tom Walker

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com> wrote:

thanks Juliet, already very useful,

Michel

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Juliet Schor <juliet.schor@bc.edu> wrote:

Michel

A great historical source is Ben Hunnicutt's Work without End. His book on the Kellogg workers six hour day finds a less positive outcome.

My student, Anders Hayden, has written a very nice paper on France, which I attach here. I am also cc:ing Ben Hunnicutt who may have some good references on positive cases. Ben, any ideas?

Juliet

On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:13 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:

Dear Juliet, Orsan, and friends,

Can anyone point to the historical experience with shorter working weeks (with keeping full pay)?

As far as I know, these experiences were very positive overall, but I'd like to see this confirmed with concrete references,

Michel

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