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Eight hours by act of Congress: arbitrary, needless, destructive,
dangerous. [New York: National Association of Manufacturers, 1904] 115
p. 20 cm.

"The idea of the 35-hour week, derided by many economists as the
'lump-of-labour fallacy', is that if employees work less, companies,
spurred by tax concessions, will hire more." The Economist, February 5,
2000.
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"Capital itself is the moving contradiction, [in] that it presses to
reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other
side, as sole measure and source of wealth. Hence it diminishes labour
time in the necessary form so as to increase it in the superfluous
form; hence posits the superfluous in growing measure as a condition --
question of life or death -- for the necessary."

Tom Walker