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    We should all be working a four-day week. Here’s why | Owen Jones

    Ending life-sapping excessive hours was a pioneering demand for the labour movement. For the sake of our health and the economy we need to revisit it
    by Owen Jones Nov 16, 2017 3 minutes
    ‘An extra day off work is not going to inevitably lead to men pulling their weight more at home. But a four-day week could be … part of a drive to promote equal relationships between men and women.’ Photograph: SolStock/Getty Images

    Imagine there was a single policy that would slash unemployment and underemployment, tackle health conditions ranging from mental distress to high blood pressure, increase productivity, help the environment, improve family lives, encourage men to do more household tasks, and make people happier. It sounds fantastical, but it exists, and it’s overdue: the introduction of a four-day week.

    The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement. From the ashes of the civil war, American trade unionism rallied behind an eight-hour day, “a. In 1890 hundreds of thousands thronged into Hyde Park in a for the same demand. It is a cause that urgently needs reclaiming.

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