I don't know how things are for you in the UK - but in the U.S. those of us not unemployed (and thus with a whole lot more unpaid leisure than we want) are pretty fuckin overworked.
It is not just that we work longer hours than in Europe. We also work longer hours every year than the year before. *******************************************************
Mike replied:
Not only that, but we produce more per male and female worker than every before. We could be working the four hour day and the capitalists would still get the same amount of commodities out of us as they did in the fifties. The annual growth rate of the GDP in 1996 dollars was 4.9 percent from 1961-1969; 4.8 percent from 1970-1973; 4.7 percent from 1975-1979; 2.5 percent from 1980-1981; 4 percent from 1982-1990; and 3.7 percent from 1991-2000. ("Monthly Review", April, 2003, page 19).
Time to dump the bosses off our backs, Mike B)
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