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Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. Kellogg's Six-Hour Day. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. x + 261 pp. $33.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-56639-448-2; $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56639-447-5. Between the Civil War and World War II the length of the American work week decreased dramatically. Since the end of World War II, the rate of decline has become positively

Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. Kellogg’s Six-Hour Day. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. x + 261 pp. $33.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-56639-448-2; $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56639-447-5. Between the Civil War and World War II the length of the American work week decreased dramatically. Since the end of World War II, the rate of decline has become positively glacial. The five-day work week with an eight-hour workday came to be seen as the norm over a half a century ago and it is still seen as the norm today. This development caught a lot of attentive observers by surprise — for example, John…

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