Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
by icebraining on Saturday May 12, 2018 @07:37AM
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As far as I know, the 40h/week was pushed by unions, not business interests (those wanted more).
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Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
by pdimitar on Saturday May 12, 2018 @09:47PM
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History is written by the victors, so we'll never truly know. Maybe the unions were bought out?
What's more likely however is that 40h a week seemed more reasonable than the baseline at the time.
Still doesn't make it good for the humans in general though. Time and again studies show humans have no flat productivity rate, and some studies are trying to prove that 40h a week is too much and the people don't have enough productive hours left outside of that to actually tend to family, house cleaning, cooking, leisure hobbies etc.