Re: Why Is America So Violent?
On May 13, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
In the U. S., it’s an irrefutable fact that the average worker is working far, far more than the average worker in previous generations
Is that really true? The 40-hour week was a major victory for the
working class - in the 19th century, the workweek was a hell of a lot
longer. Americans may be working more now than in the 1950s or 1960s,
and certainly the population as a whole is working longer (for pay
that is) than then. But that was an anomalous period in many ways, so
it all depends on what your point of comparison is.
Doug