This book is written in support of proposals to reduce work time
in order to improve employment opportunities. The authors, both of
whom have been deeply involved in shorter workweek policy debates,
argue that the failure of the U.S. to enact shorter workweek
legislation when it was first proposed in the late 1950s was a
significant policy mistake. They argue further that reduced work
hours are an effective means to full employment, improved income
distribution, and a stronger consumer market--in addition to
promising a better life to the contemporary American family.
Policymakers concerned with employment issues as well as trade
union officials and students of industrial relations will find here
a new framework of ideas to support the renewed consideration of
shorter workweek legislation.
The authors approach their subject by analyzing the consequences
of the U.S. rejection of shorter workweek proposals over the past
30 years. Among them, they contend, are an increasing polarization
of incomes, the devotion of more and more resources to the support
of economic waste, and a continuing problem with unemployment. The
current preoccupation with dollar-denominated growth (a legacy from
the Great Depression) has produced a debt-ridden system which
increasingly fails to accomodate people's real needs: hence, the
authors call for a nonfinancial analysis of economic questions.
Taken as a whole, this volume offers both an eloquent defense of
leisure and a cogent analysis of the beneficial economic effects of
the institution of a shorter workweek or longer annual
vacation.
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