Share the Work
Writing in The Guardian, Dean Baker explains that there’s more than one way to skin the unemployment cat:
The average worker in Germany and the Netherlands puts in 20% fewer hours in a year than the average worker in the United States. This means that if the US adopted Germany’s work patterns tomorrow, it would immediately eliminate unemployment.
Read his piece here.
For more on work and time in America, check out Take Back Your Time.
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