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Whatever happened to the 15-hour workweek?

  • Written by Joshua Krook, Doctoral Candidate in Law, University of Adelaide
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In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological change and productivity improvements would eventually lead to a 15-hour workweek. But, despite significant productivity gains over the past few decades, we still work 40 hours a week on average.

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