All recent credible studies have shown that the sole reform that created large-scale employment in France, in the last thirty years, was undoubtedly the shortening of the working week.
Amid the “roars of the social battle being waged at the front”, as termed by Pierre Bourdieu, there are times when ideas that go against the flow have a universal value and elevate democracy. Thus is the case of the debate, which surfaced at start of .the post-industrial age, on shortening the working week. (...)
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