Traumas of Time and Money in Prosperity and Depression
Author(s)
Cross, Gary
Abstract
At the end of WWI workers in America, Britain and France fought for shorter work days and work weeks. Yet the movement for shorter hours soon lost its momentum, and the equation of productivity gains with wage increases became widely accepted, allowing the creation of a mass consumer culture. This selection analyzes the forces that blocked further reductions in hours of work in the 1920s and 1930s.
