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Why Do We Have To Work More Than 15 Hours A Week?

Most of us work something like a 40 hour week. Maybe we commute an hour or two everyday on top of...

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15.36 9 Sep 2020


Why Do We Have To Work More Than 15 Hours A Week?


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15.36 9 Sep 2020


Most of us work something like a 40 hour week. Maybe we commute an hour or two everyday on top of that.

In short we spend most of our waking lives working.

Why? And was it always thus?

James Suzman is the author of Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time. 


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