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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: Working Time Struggles, Live from Labor Notes
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The pandemic has drawn renewed attention to the issue of working time. The boundaries between home and work have blurred. The spread of the virus has made forced overtime more common as workers subbed in for their sick colleagues. But even before COVID-19, working time was a key issue for workers organizing in many sectors; not long ago, the demand for shorter working hours was a central focus of the labor movement.
Controlling our time at work is not just a matter of getting paid fairly for time on the...