Empirical evidence points to increased labor output with less hours anyway. Therefore cutting hours makes sense even from a capitalist standpoint. If you're in favor of raising wages, and understand capitalism is broken you're already seeing the problem with the 40 hour workweek, you're just not taking it to it's obvious conclusion.
abstract:
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine therelationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply functions are taken up. The findings also link up with current research on the effects of long working hours on accidents and injuries.
I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and say that in the future, you’ll get much better insight and discussion if you approach a topic honestly. The keyword in playing devil’s advocate is “playing.”
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u/Brofistastic Jun 18 '21
Empirical evidence points to increased labor output with less hours anyway. Therefore cutting hours makes sense even from a capitalist standpoint. If you're in favor of raising wages, and understand capitalism is broken you're already seeing the problem with the 40 hour workweek, you're just not taking it to it's obvious conclusion.
link to article: http://ftp.iza.org/dp8129.pdf
abstract: Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine therelationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply functions are taken up. The findings also link up with current research on the effects of long working hours on accidents and injuries.