Excellent attack on the ideology of hard work by economics professor

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[Time Published October 26, 2013 at 06:40AM]

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Here is a superb piece by David Spencer, Professor of Political Economy at the Leeds University Business School. Prof Spencer argues that society needs more idleness, not less. CLICK HERE TO READ THE PIECE.

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Why the Labour movement should embrace a shorter working day

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[Time Published October 20, 2013 at 11:07AM]

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Here is Bernard Marszalek’s a review of Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream by Benjamin Hunnicutt. The book examines the history of campaigns in the US – often successful – to introduce a shorter working day. Marszalek urges the labour movement to reconnect with this lost movement and abandon its “full-time, full employment” agenda. CLICK HERE TO READ THE PIECE.

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