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It is an essentially inevitable result of technological development. If the 40 hour workweek people had protested 30 years earlier, nothing would have happened,
by wyager 5y ago
It is an essentially inevitable result of technological development. If the 40 hour workweek people had protested 30 years earlier, nothing would have happened, and if they hadn’t protested at all it probably would have been achieved with less effort a few years down the line. You need occasional shocks to remove entrenched procedural traditions like work schedules, but the magnitude of the shock required decreases as the change becomes more obviously beneficial.
- noselasd 5y agoThere are plenty of countries where this is not achieved, and it's unlikely to change without some kind of pressure, either from the workers or from the government
- wyager 5y agoWhich countries? I can think of some but the reason is usually something like elite overproduction or poverty.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"It is an essentially inevitable result of technological development" So its been over a century, why are we still stuck at 40 hours?
- wyager 5y agoWe'll probably see a big shift soon. The environment is ripe for it. Various factors have suppressed the probability of such a transition occurring (e.g. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com https://wtfhappenedin1971.com), but it's becoming overwhelmingly likely. Already, many white-collar jobs (especially in tech) have large numbers of people working fewer than 40 hours a week.