User:OldBertie/Four Hour Workday
The four hour workday or 20-hour week ,
Idea History
[edit]Benjamin Franklin
[edit]"It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that, if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labor would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life, want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure."
Bertrand Russell
[edit]If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization.
Niko Paech
[edit]Variants
[edit]Tim Ferris
[edit]See also
[edit]- Technological unemployment
- Working time
- Leisure
- Idleness
- Eight-hour day
- Post growth
- Sustainability
- 9 to 5
- Work–life balance
- Workweek and weekend
How Much Is Enough? by Robert and Edward Skidelsky
People
- Bertrand Russell, supporter of the movement, 1914
- Niko Paech, supporter of the movement, 1914
- John Maynard Keynes, "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren", 1930, titled "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.
References
[edit]Jacobs, Sherelle (19 September 2012). "Germany's 'post growth' movement". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
Benjamin Franklin, The Works of Benjamin Franklin, "On Luxury, Idleness, and industry, July 26, 1784, https://books.google.ch/books?id=qXQUJhWz2rQC
Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and other essays book
Niko Paech, Liberation from Excess, The Road to a post-growth economy, http://www.oekom.de/nc/buecher/gesamtprogramm/buch/liberation-from-excess.html
Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, book: Free Time (Vice article)
External links
[edit]- Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday? by Nathan Schneider, December 2014
- In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
- Arguments For a Four-Hour Day by Industrial Workers of the World
- Global Campaign for the 4 Hour Work-Day
- Work it by Peter Frase
- Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours, urge top economists by Peter Frase
Category:Labor history Category:Working time Category:Labor rights Category:Employment Category:Labor economics