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1. zigg :rose_pride: (zigg@queer.garden)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 07:51:21 EDT zigg :rose_pride:

   More and more, I’m convinced that the sustainability of the forty-hour workweek is based on the patriarchal assumption that the worker has a partner that just takes care of the rest of life’s needs so they can ignore them https://twitter.com/destroytoday/status/1165625351894175744

   1. Shufei 🈳 (shufei@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 10:01:53 EDT Shufei 🈳

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      @zigg It was explicitly so, with a major strategic imperative of labour activism to secure a well paid single earner for every household who need only work 40 hours in a safe environment. Patriarchy aside, it wasn’t a bad waypoint. Better this than before, when both parents worked, women as factory girls or laundresses or whathaveyou, and still had patriarchy anyway.

      And even this waypoint is gone. 40 hour weeks have been a vague rumour for most families for a long while now.