Word: workweek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wave of hysteria should engulf the country simply because the highest court of the land has now defined the term "workweek" to include time spent upon the employer's premises at employer's request, including walking-time and time spent in performing various preliminary duties, such as changing clothes, sharpening tools, preparing machinery for production, and similar activities...
...Small, was labor. Employment, at 58,000,000, was "practically full," leaving an "unbelievably low" unemployed pool of 2,000,000 (which includes unemployables). Said Jack Small: unless there is an increase in the labor force, the only way production could be increased now was by 1) a longer workweek, 2) new plants, 3) new labor-saving machinery. He might have added: and harder work by everyone...