My wife, like many public school teachers, puts in 60-hour work weeks throughout the school year.
Did you know that we have Henry Ford to thank for the 40-hour work week?
John Quiggin has a fascinating essay on the prospect of 15 hour work weeks in aeon magazine.
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For many Americans, who now work an average 47 hour work-week, the prospect of taking vacation days can be daunting.
It codified the 60-hour work week and stipulated that all factories, mines and mills had to shut down by 2 p.m.
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He wants to free up labor markets, calls France's 35-hour work week absurd and plans tougher measures on crime and immigration.
He then quotes from a book that predicts a four to five hour day, and generally speaking, thirty hour work weeks.
The 100-hour work week and getting five hours of sleep per night have become a sort of Silicon Valley Badge of Honor.
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Under the president's proposal, up to 16 hours of the 40-hour work-week requirement could be devoted to job training and education efforts.
For 10 titles, a nearly 100-hour work-week and a six-figure annual rate, moms may be the most valuable workers in the country.
Two, four-hour work stoppages by civil aviation workers likewise forced the disruption of flight schedules into and out of the Athens airport.
It helped lay the cornerstones of middle class security, from the 40-hour work week and the minimum wage to family leave and pensions.
Big manufacturers, such as Renault and Peugeot, have even grown to love the 35-hour work-week, for the greater flexibility they have derived from it.
Mr Jospin has signalled he does not agree with Ms Royal's questioning of the 35-hour work week and her tough proposals on law and order.
It could help Martine Aubry, the party chief and godmother of the 35-hour work week, who remains as hardcore a Socialist as there is these days.
So this is my fear: the 15 hour work week leads to 25 more hours of eating, sleeping, and watching TV and thus a massive increase in obesity.
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The Department of Labor is proud of its many important achievements, from providing the framework for the 40-hour work week to allowing parents to take leave for family emergencies.
Maximising the size of the economy would mean, among other things, maximising working hours (even with diminished productivity 80 hour work weeks will produce more than 40 hour ones).
During the campaign, Sarkozy criticized the 35-hour work week and other labor restrictions that contribute to steady unemployment of around 9% -- one of the highest rates in Europe.
Given how poorly it tends to be designed, the amount of paternalism that would be required to undo the health damage of the 15 hour work week would probably be fairly extreme.
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In January, Apple released a report saying that last year only 38% of its suppliers met its standard for a maximum 60-hour work week and at least one day off every seven.
Forcible interventions into immigration were really just forcible interventions into the labor market designed to restrict wage competition, just like unionism, just like mandated 30-hour work weeks or forced retirement or wage floors.
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And then there is the new generation of salaried staff physicians who want no part of the 80 hour work weeks that used to be standard fare when doctors ran their own private practices.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. (Applause.) The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans.
Minimum wage laws would be suspended, the 40-hour work week would be thrown out, perhaps they would even do away with child labor laws to get productivity up so profits could increase to make up for lost revenue.
At the high end of the spectrum, assuming 1, 280 hrs of time to get a minor degree, that equates to 160 eight hour work days, i.e. 32 weeks of full-time work experience assuming 8 hour days Monday through Friday.
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There are, of course, the more mundane threats, like 20-hour work days and the annoyance of friends who gush over how exciting it must have been to work with Brad Pitt after you ve staggered home bruised and filthy at 7 A.M.
He goes on to suggest how you might even find taking a daily nap more productive in the long run than doing things that bring little to no return, packing into eight solid hours something greater than any 50-hour work week could produce in the big scheme of things.
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