Joanna ************* This glut is directly related to the already achieved productivity of the working class and the labour time necessary to produce wealth profitably for the capitalist class. What is needed, IMO, is a consistent call for shorter work time; but that of course takes the praxis of everyday solidarity, espeically on the part of already existing individual leftists.
"Whether you work by the piece or work by the day, decreasing the hours increases the pay." Mary Steward, wife of Ira Steward the eight-hour day pioneer.
"So long as there is one man who seeks employment and cannot obtain it, the hours of labor are too long.'" Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation of Labor.
"Further steps toward a reformation of society can never be carried out with any hope of success, unless the hours of labour be limited, and the prescribed limit strictly enforced." R.J. Saunders, English Factory Inspector, 1848.
"The limitation of the working-day is a preliminary condition without which all further attempts at improvement and emancipation must prove abortive..." Resolution adopted by the First Congress of the International Workingmen's Association, drafted by Karl Marx.
Mike B)
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