gameboygirl:compagnoenjolras:vulned:santorumsoakedpikachu:cultural-fenianism:temple-cat:Vintage IWW
gameboygirl:compagnoenjolras:vulned:santorumsoakedpikachu:cultural-fenianism:temple-cat:Vintage IWW 4 hour workday printsCan you imagine? Would give us so much more rest and free time.The average office worker is only productive for 3 hours a day.Every article talking about this study talks about how bosses can squeeze more labor out of workers, or how workers can squeeze more labor out of themselves, but the reality is that the human brain only has so much capacity to focus on unpleasant tasks, and people generally won’t work more than that without the threat of force (like in manual and service industry jobs where work is easily quantified and workers are being monitored all the time to make sure they don’t slack off; the threat of being fired and losing one’s ability to eat is the threat of force). People in hunter-gatherer societies do about that same amount of work.@whynotrobinThe working day isn’t only about productivity, it’s about keeping you busy too, so you’ll have no time do to other things (like study, discover that you can fight back capitalism, organize, things like that).I wanna print these off and propagate them via wheatpasting in the city.note that the IWW ppl are called “wobblies” and from what I last heard tell of:Just heard from a Wobbly friend:“The IWW is now officially a union that endorses prison abolition, mass anti-fascism, and community self defense. The union will also now formally refuse to apply discriminatory labor laws towards members who have been formerly incarcerated (current US labor law says that people who have been convicted of a felony are not able to hold certain positions in a union). This prompted the need to form a special committee in order to prepare for the legal ramifications of such a decision. Additionally, there’s also now a dedicated fund to provide financial assist to formerly incarcerated members for attending organizer trainings, conventions, and other union events for political development.And finally, per a series of resolutions from the union’s Gender Equity Committee, the membership voted to form an organization-wide Conflict Resolution Committee on Matters of Gender.” -- source link