Hours of Work in British Industry

McCormick, B. J.

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“…13 Appendix A1 gives more details about UK civilian employment, military employment, and population from 1913 to 1938, which also are listed in table A1. 14 The Ministry of Labour Gazette defines 'normal weekly hours' as falling under working conditions established by contract, legislation, or custom rather than actual hours worked per week; seeMcCormick (1959). Combining aggregate hours worked with the indices of 'normal weekly hours of manual workers' assumes that the notional hours worked behavior of these workers is a reasonable proxy for actual hours worked by UK workers not employed in the "69 principal industries and services" during the 1920s and 1930s.…”

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UK World War I and Interwar Data for Business Cycle and Growth Analysis

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Vahey²

2011

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This article contributes new time series for studying the UK economy during World War I and the interwar period. The time series are per capita hours worked and average capital income, labor income, and consumption tax rates. Uninterrupted time series of these variables are provided for an annual sample that runs from 1913 to 1938. We highlight the usefulness of these time series with several empirical applications. The per capita hours worked data are used in a growth accounting exercise to measure the contributions of capital, labor, and productivity to output growth. The average tax rates are employed in a Bayesian model averaging experiment to reevaluate the Benjamin and Kochin (1979) regression. JEL Classification Codes: E32, E62, N14, N34, N44.

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UK World War I and Interwar Data for Business Cycle and Growth Analysis

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2011

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“…The website http://www.greatdepressionsbook.com/datasets/UKData.xls links to theCole and Ohanian (2002a) data set.13 Appendix A1 gives more details about UK civilian employment, military employment, and population from 1913 to 1938, which also are listed in table A1.14 The Ministry of Labour Gazette defines 'normal weekly hours' as falling under working conditions established by contract, legislation, or custom rather than actual hours worked per week; seeMcCormick (1959). Combining aggregate hours worked with the indices of 'normal weekly hours of manual workers' assumes that the notional hours worked behavior of these workers is a reasonable proxy for actual hours worked by UK workers not employed in the "69 principal industries and services" during the 1920s and 1930s.…”

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UK World War I and interwar data for business cycle and growth analysis

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2011

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Worktime Between Haymarket and the Popular Front: An International Perspective

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1986

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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The quest for an eight-hour day was the central issue of the struggles leading to the Haymarket massacre of 1886. It also was at the heart of a widening scope of labor activity in the 1880s. The AFL's call for national eight-hour demonstrations on May 1, 1890 encouraged admiring European labor movements to join the Americans in an international strike for eight hours, the event which partially inspired the organizing of the Second International. Given these often-noted facts, it is ironic that the history of the hours issue after 1890, and especially between World War I and the popular front, when the major reductions in worktime occurred, has been largely neglected by American and European labor historians. In the half-century between Haymarket and the popular front worktime particularly dominated the attention of international labor and produced the forty-hour week standard and the ideal of the annual vacation. Movements for shorter working hours epitomize the essentially discontinuous character of labor history. The quest for reduced work time has been most pronounced during peak periods in labor organizing. These movements also capped epochs of political or class-wide mobilization during brief periods of democratization following wars and depressions when the legitimacy of the political economy was challenged. Not only did the period after the American Civil War and the years following World War I and II produce hour movements, so also did the depressions of the 1840s, 1880s and 1930s in affected countries. The demand for fewer hours also became an increasingly international phenomenon. Agitation for a shorter work week was pronounced during the following periods: 1847-50 in Britain, France, and slightly later in Australia; 1866-73 in the USA and Britain; 1886-91 in the USA and virtually all of industrializing Western Europe; and more narrowly, 1897-1907 in Britain, France, and the USA. These movements culminated in the period, 1915-22 when not only American, Australian, and European movements for shorter hours were widespread but Latin America also shared in this worldwide effort to reduce worktime. Although this international quest for short hours became fragmented in the 1920s, the call for the forty-hour week (or less) animated both the French and American labor movements in the popular front period. At the same time, the movement for annual vacations brought legislation and collective bargaining in France, Germany, Britain, and elsewhere in Europe. 1 With some exaggeration one could argue that short-hour drives were syn

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Hours of Work in British Industry

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UK World War I and Interwar Data for Business Cycle and Growth Analysis

UK World War I and Interwar Data for Business Cycle and Growth Analysis

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