[P2P-F] historical success of shorter working week

[Sandwichman]

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 at gmail.com>wrote:

> thanks Juliet, already very useful,
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> Michel
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> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Juliet Schor <juliet.schor at bc.edu> wrote:
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>> Michel
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>> 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?
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>> Juliet
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>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:13 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
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>> Dear Juliet, Orsan, and friends,
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>> Can anyone point to the historical experience with shorter working weeks
>> (with keeping full pay)?
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>> As far as  I know, these experiences were very positive overall, but I'd
>> like to see this confirmed with concrete references,
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>> Michel
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