Kellogg's Six-Hour Day (Labor and Social Change)

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In 1930, W. K. Kellogg, the famed breakfast cereal magnate from Battle Creek, Michigan, established a six-hour workday for his laborers. In the depths of the Depression, this policy provided more labor for more workers, and the experiment continued until the mid-1980s. Paradoxically, the six-hour workday was ended not because of poor productivity, but because workers wanted more hours so they could consume more. Hunnicutt's book mostly succeeds in balancing sound scholarship and interviews with the workers and managers that participated in this 55-year experiment in a reduced workday--the kind of workday envisioned by futurists since the mid-1800s, but repeatedly eschewed by wage earners. An interesting examination of how Americans place more value on income than leisure.

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On December 1, 1930, at the start of the Great Depression, W.K. Kellogg replaced the traditional three daily eight-hour shifts in his cereal plant with four six-hour shifts. By adding on a new shift he and his managers created jobs for employees that the company had laid off and for other unemployed persons in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Kellogg's six-hour day was the pinnacle of a hundred-year process that cut working time virtually in half. Kellogg Management, propelled by a vision of Liberation Capitalism, insisted that six hours would revolutionize society by shifting the balance of time from work to leisure--from economic concerns to the challenge of freedom.

Kellogg's employees, like centuries of workers, believed that work was a means to an end. An overwhelming number of employees were willing to "share their work" and found the extra time an opportunity to invest in the family, community, church, and individual freedom. When World War II ended, Kellogg's managers abandoned the six-hour shift and began with the rest of the nation to define progress as more work for more people. Losing sight of the original dream of more time to live outside necessity, management argued that work should remain the center of life, providing identity, meaning, and purpose to an otherwise meaningless existence.

Hunnicutt documents the struggle of those workers, mostly women, who resisted management and the new beliefs about work's centrality. They fought to keep their six-hour shifts until 1985, and in the process preserved the century-old vision of "progressive shortening of the hours of labor." Their story is a monument to workers' struggle for control over their lives and for substantial freedom beyond necessity. It serves as a reminder of a remarkable vision of progress, offering hope and guidance to the last decade of this century when layoffs, downsizing, mandatory overtime, and a "jobless future" plague the nation.

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KELLOGG'S SIX-HOUR DAY.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Oral History Review
Sharon Hartman Strom
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: KELLOGG'S SIX-HOUR DAY.(Review) (book review)
Author: Sharon Hartman Strom
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 27 Issue: 2 Page: 193

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Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
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