[P2P-F] historical success of shorter working week

Tue Jul 12 19:33:23 CEST 2011

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 at 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 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> thanks Juliet, already very useful,
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Juliet Schor <juliet.schor at 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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