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From the first few pages: "As is well known, the Russians now make a work day of Sunday, taking their rest instead every sixth day." Never knew this. Indeed, f
by gniv 3y ago
From the first few pages: "As is well known, the Russians now make a work day of Sunday, taking their rest instead every sixth day."
Never knew this. Indeed, from another source:
"The nepreryvka was supposed to revolutionize the concept of labor, set a match to productivity and make religious worship too troublesome to be worth the effort. But it failed on virtually every count. Adjustments were made and in 1931, the cycle was extended to last six days. After 11 years of trial and error, the project was axed in June, 1940."
https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-stalin-weekend-labor-policy https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-stalin-weekend-lab...
- jacquesm 3y agoWhere I live 4 and now even 3 day work weeks are a fairly common thing.
- xingped 3y agoWhere is that, if you don't mind me asking?
- jacquesm 3y agoNL Typically it's two income households where both partners work part-time. But there are also instances of single people and single parents doing this. In part this is possible because of the relatively strong social network here, for as long as we've still got it, there have been many attempts to break it down.
- hellojesus 3y agoFascinating. By strong social network, do you mean that people within the same networks give charitably and share resources with one another, enabling the collective to reduce total individual compensation? Originally I figured most 3-4 day workers were doing something like coast fi.
- jacquesm 3y agoI meant the degree to which the state will help to subsidize lower income households through all kinds of arrangements, such as health car, child care, housing and other such subsidies.
- hellojesus 3y agoVery interesting. I hadn't considered the state as an actor. Thanks!
- gniv 3y agoYou might have misunderstood what happened. They changed the duration of the literal week, not the workweek.
- jacquesm 3y agoYes, but the obvious goal was to squeeze more labor out of the population by removing the religiously supported 'rest' day.
- Georgelemental 3y agoActually, there were more rest days under the new system, they just weren't synced up (different people would have a different rest day).
- mistrial9 3y agoentrenched religious authorities used the rest day as a lever for religious observation laws and such.. both sides, secular red and traditional religious groups, pushing hard to "command" the week.. that is a guess from afar
- jacquesm 3y agoAbsolutely, it's a tithe on time. It's power structures competing for influence.