[P2P-F] historical success of shorter working week

Tue Jul 12 19:55:23 CEST 2011

Sure thing, Michel. I've excerpted chapter four, "The Labor Commons," minus
a section at the end dealing with contract costing (which is probably too
technical a digression) and I've uploaded it to scribd with the url and
wordpress embed script copied below:

url:
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/59880049?access_key=key-1ajmcetzddqc7zpz2zvm

wordpress embed script: [scribd id=59880049 key=key-1ajmcetzddqc7zpz2zvm
mode=list]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Tom,
>
> would it be possible to extract that part on the commons-based (Elinor
> Ostrom) strategy from restarting a dynamic shorter work time movement, for
> excerpting in our p2p blog? in odt or doc format? (we can attach to scribd
> chapter to it as an embed function)
>
> 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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