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Volume 11, Issue 12
1 December 1979
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Review Article| December 01 1979

More leisure, more work?

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5767
Print ISSN: 0019-7858
© MCB UP Limited
1979
Industrial and Commercial Training (1979) 11 (12): 506–507.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003764

The very first convention adopted by the ILO at its Washington Conference in 1919 concerned hours of work. It set the goal of a 48‐hour week.

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