This Labor Day, Let’s Remember Labor’s Forgotten Fight—Shorter Hours and Control Over Work Time - We’re working more for less. Instead, we should fight to work less for more.
Most Americans are familiar with a classic story of U.S. labor history. Once we worked long and arduous hours, with only minimal control over when we arrived at work and when we returned home. But then laws were passed to limit excessive labor, and we now enjoy a standardized 40-hour week and a weekend—a just reward for our daily grind won after a years-long struggle.
That story, while largely true, is incomplete. The original campaign of the U.S. labor movement was to reduce work time without reducing pay... Читать дальше...