Workweek

Definitions

The range of days of the week that are normally worked.

US

Equivalents

Examples

“Mrs. Lienemann, the French Housing Minister, sees socialist and ecological forces proposing what she calls “a new culture”—perhaps named “Ecosocialism”—that might, she believes, work⟳ for innovations like⟳ a 32-hour workweek, more democracy at the workplace, and “a greater stress⟳ on quality than quantity in everyday life.””

“That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort⟳ of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.”

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