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FEATURE SERIES | The Not-so-new Normal - Ep. 1: Productivity


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We say we “spend time” or “save time.” But when did work become so tied to the clock? In this episode of The Not-so-new Normal, Boston University Masters Journalism Student Katharine Swindells speaks to Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, historian at the University of Iowa and Nelson Lichtenstein, Historian and Director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California Santa Barbara, about the 1930s Kellogg's experiment with the 6-hour workday, and what we really mean when we talk about productivity.

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