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  2. Unequal hours - Wikipedia

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    Unequal hours are the division of the daytime and the nighttime into 12 sections each, whatever the season. They are also called temporal hours, seasonal hours, biblical or Jewish hours, as well as ancient or Roman hours (Latin: horae temporales). They are unequal duration periods of time because days are longer and nights shorter in summer ...

  3. Double burden - Wikipedia

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    For many poor women and men whose work hours have reached the point where they cannot cut back on leisure time anymore to make time for domestic and paid work, work intensity is an issue because they often intensify their work time by doing two or more activities at once, such as taking care of children while cooking.

  4. Hour - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greeks kept time differently than is done today. Instead of dividing the time between one midnight and the next into 24 equal hours, they divided the time from sunrise to sunset into 12 "seasonal hours" (their actual duration depending on season), and the time from sunset to the next sunrise again in 12 "seasonal hours". [10]

  5. How Many Work Hours Are in a Year? - AOL

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    In Job A, Joe will get 88 hours of paid holiday time and 40 hours of paid sick time in the first year. So he will work 1,952 hours, but he will get paid for 2,080 hours at $15 per hour, or $31,200 ...

  6. Japanese clock - Wikipedia

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    Two separate foliot balances allow this 18th-century Japanese clock to run at two different speeds to indicate unequal hours.. A Japanese clock (和時計, wadokei) is a mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time, a system in which daytime and nighttime are always divided into six periods whose lengths consequently change with the season.

  7. Shift work - Wikipedia

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    The 42-hour work-week allows for the most even distribution of work time. A 3:1 ratio of work days to days off is most effective for eight-hour shifts, and a 2:2 ratio of work days to days off is most effective for twelve-hour shifts. [49] [50] Eight-hour shifts and twelve-hour shifts are common in manufacturing and health care.

  8. Labour law - Wikipedia

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    Between 1936 and 1938 the Popular Front enacted a law mandating 12 days (2 weeks) each year of paid vacation for workers, and a law limited the work week to 40 hours, excluding overtime. The Grenelle accords negotiated on May 25 and 26th in the middle of the May 1968 crisis, reduced the working week to 44 hours and created trade union sections ...

  9. Exploitation of labour - Wikipedia

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    Exploitation is a concept defined as, in its broadest sense, one agent taking unfair advantage of another agent. [1] When applying this to labour (or labor), it denotes an unjust social relationship based on an asymmetry of power or unequal exchange of value between workers and their employers. [ 2 ]