Depressingly: http://money.msn.com/investing/post--what-happened-to-the-6-hour-workday http://money.msn.com/investing/post--what-happened-to-the-6-... In the

Depressingly: http://money.msn.com/investing/post--what-happened-to-the-6-hour-workday http://money.msn.com/investing/post--what-happened-to-the-6-... In the '50s, a new management team arrived, one that may have tended to "denigrate and 'feminize' shorter hours." They became embarrassed by the short hours that they were working -- shorter than the shifts worked by men at other local jobs. They changed their rhetoric, downplaying the freedom that leisure gave. Six-hour workdays wouldn't let them keep up with the Joneses, and many men did not receive much enjoyment from their marginal leisure hours. "Like management, senior male workers were concerned about the loss of status and control. Several men told about the friction that resulted when the men spent too much time around the house: "The wives didn't like the men underfoot all day." "The wife always found something for me to do if I hung around." "We got into a lot of fights." Many of the men confessed that they were at loose ends when they were working six hours. [Mr Zine]