
Tag: working hours

One thing the pandemic has done is made people question whether the 5-day work week really makes sense. People had done that before the pandemic too, but like a lot of things, the pandemic took previo
Work in modern America really sucks. There are many reasons for this, but one of them is that the old idea of the 40-hour week–long a goal for workers in the past–has been eroded to the po
Jeb Bush’s hands are far apart to indicate he wants workers to labor all the hours Jeb Bush really is a man of the New Gilded Age. His beliefs about labor are truly Lochner-esque. Republican pre
I’ll admit that what I know about the French economy can be put in a thimble. So I won’t comment on the details. But the French economist Michel Husson and Stephanie Treillet have a provoc

On April 17, 1905, the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Melville Fuller, decided the Lochner v. New York case, overturning a New York law limiting the hours bakers could work to sixty a week. This
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