Juliet Schor wants a four-day work week
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The Five Day Week
The five day week was itself a kind of invent can you just tell us briefly, like, the history ofof that convention? Yes, i'll go back a little earlier. Il, god, so with the development of industrial capitalism, and of course, also with plantation agriculture, you get a tremendous increase in working hours. So more and more days per week, lengthening of the working day a as people went into factories and plantations.
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