[lbo-talk] 40 hour week designed to wear people out, turn them into consumers?

[Wojtek S]

Gar: "A work week
much below 40 hours gives workers too much energy and too much freedom -
too well rested to be good little consumers."

[WS:]  I think it is much simpler than that.  Reducing down the 40 hour
week creates more demand for labor (they have to hire more bodies to stay
open for a fixed number of hours), and high demand for labor gives labor
more bargaining power vis a vis employers, higher wages, better working
conditions etc.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."