Word: workweek
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...questionnaire. Still, the anecdotal evidence gathered in 902 personal interviews with women mostly between the ages of 32 and 45 suggests that Hillary Rodham Clinton's peers often face punishment on the job for daring to get pregnant, taking a few weeks of maternity leave and shortening their workweek. Swiss and Walker call it "the maternal wall...
...most obvious effects of downsizing is that the employees who survive are forced to work longer and harder. In February the manufacturing workweek stretched to 41.5 hours, the longest in 27 years. The resulting increase in stress leads to discontent, lowers creativity and undermines corporate loyalty. A study by the American Management Association last year showed that of more than 500 firms surveyed that had cut jobs since 1987, more than 75% reported that employee morale had collapsed. Indeed, two-thirds of the companies showed no increase in efficiency at all and less than half saw any improvement in profits...
...always the case. The wave of progressive thinking that first brought welfare benefits to Europe at the turn of the century did not reach France until 1936, when the Popular Front government of Premier Leon Blum imposed worker-friendly reforms, including higher salaries, paid vacations and a 40-hour workweek. Still suffering from the Great Depression, the French middle class felt threatened by the worker privileges and contributed to Blum's rapid demise...
This less-is-more stance has placed heavy physical and emotional strains on those workers fortunate enough to keep their jobs. Though both the length of the average workweek and the number of overtime hours dipped a bit in June, the twin indicators of how long and hard people work had reached record levels in recent months. At the same time, the financial rewards of work have continued to dwindle. When adjusted for inflation, the average hourly wage of U.S. workers stands 14% lower than in 1979. And male college graduates who were just beginning their careers earned 5.1% less...
...Charles, the owner of a McDonald's in Boulder, has seen some of his employed at-risk students begin to get A's after joining his McPride program, which limits them to a 14-hour workweek and pays bonuses for improvement and school attendance. Many of them have a very low level of self-esteem, says Charles. But once they come to work as part of a team and gain a sense of confidence, "you'd almost never believe the change in these kids...