Kellogg's Six-Hour Day - Softcover

Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566394481 ISBN 13: 9781566394482

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1996

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Review:

In 1930, W. K. Kellogg, the famed breakfast cereal magnate from Battle Creek, Michigan, established a six-hour workday for his laborers. In the depths of the Depression, this policy provided more labor for more workers, and the experiment continued until the mid-1980s. Paradoxically, the six-hour workday was ended not because of poor productivity, but because workers wanted more hours so they could consume more. Hunnicutt's book mostly succeeds in balancing sound scholarship and interviews with the workers and managers that participated in this 55-year experiment in a reduced workday--the kind of workday envisioned by futurists since the mid-1800s, but repeatedly eschewed by wage earners. An interesting examination of how Americans place more value on income than leisure.

From the Publisher:

In an era of corporate downsizing and threats of a "jobless future," this book is a wake-up call to recover the vision of life beyond necessity that allows workers time to invest in family, community, and a democratic future

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1566394481
• ISBN 13: 9781566394482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 261