Word: onefourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million; 2) the same proportion of the population would be working then as now; 3) the average amount a worker produces in an hour will continue to rise, at the 2%-per-year rate as it has for several generations; 4) the average work week will be cut by onefourth. Most important of these assumptions is No. 3. If more and better machinery, and more and better industrial organization continues to raise productivity at the old rate, 1980's worker will be able to turn out 88.4% more in an hour than the worker...