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16-Hour Work Week by Year 2020 (1967) — Paleofuture Those who hunger for time off from work may take heart from the forecast of political scientist Sebastian de Grazia that the average work week, by the year 2000, will average 31 hours, and perhaps as few as 21 Twenty years later, on-the-job hours may have dwindled to 26, or even 16 But what will people do with all that free time?
TIL In 1965 a U. S. Senate subcommittee predicted that by the year 2000 . . . I feel like they really did predict it well The failure of the prediction though was that this fictitious "work week" would be associated with prosperity instead of poverty Try 20 no doubt, increased productivity with less labor is one reason for our continuing employment problem
The Liberation of the Leisure Class: Debating Freedom and Work in the . . . For years an industrial worker and no stranger to the shop floor, Braverman refused to abandon work as a site of political struggle, although until the early 1960s he too believed “automation” to be the technological phenomenon so many of its boosters claimed it was
TIL that in the 1950s and 60s Americans were told that by . . . - Reddit TIL that in the 1950's and 60's Americans were told that by the year 2000 the normal work week would be 20-30 hours, and people would be committing suicide from boredom Someone with today's technology can easily do twice as much work as someone did in the 50's and 60's, so they were partially right
Social Problems Chapter 9 Flashcards | Quizlet In the early 1960s, women earned how much for every dollar earned by men? What about in 2008? How do feminist researches explain the pay gap? What are the similarities between sociologies of work and symbolic interaction?
Trends in hours of work since the mid-1970s - U. S. Bureau of Labor . . . This article examines trends in hours at work from two perspectives First, trends in the aver- age workweek and changes in the distribution of hours worked since the mid-1970s are examined Then, the focus is expanded to estimate annual work hours