Re: [Pen-l] Dean Baker: Getting the most bang for the stimulus buck

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sandwichman wrote:
> 
> Admittedly, implementation and enforcement would be a challenge for
> this proposal. In that respect, it doesn't differ from existing labor
> standards legislation in principle -- only in magnitude. Another way
> to skin this cat would be with something akin to an EITC, which could
> be called an Earned Leisure Tax Credit. There you would introduce a
> kind of cross-check of employees filing for the credit and employers
> providing the data in the form of payroll receipts.

Have working hours ever been reeduced significantly in the absence of
mass struggle by workers? I mean men and women died in the struggle for
the 8-hour day. It wasn't adopted as a normal policy decision through
normal channels.

Carrol

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