THE FOUR DAY FUTURE: building a movement for shorter working hours
In this episode:
We love the four day week so much that - in a Reasons to be Cheerful first - we’re revisiting the idea. What are the lessons from how it went down in the election? And how we build a movement to make the four day week happen?
Friend of the pod Andrew Barnes tells us why he’s travelling the world to promote it. Then Rachel Kay and Will Stronge discuss where we go next in the UK.
And we’re treating you to a preview of this week’s Cheerful Book Club with the wonderful Rachel Maddow!
Guests
Andrew Barnes (@andrewhbarnes), founder of Perpetual Guardian and author of ‘The Four Day Week’
Rachel Kay, researcher for the Lord Skidelsky Working Time Inquiry
Will Stronge (@w_stronge), director of Autonomy
Rachel Maddow (@maddow), host of ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ on MSNBC
More info
Four Day Week
Lord Skidelsky: How to achieve shorter working hours – report for Labour (2019)
Autonomy: The Shorter Working Week (2019)
The Guardian: Is this the age of the four-day week? (Mar 2019)