When America Came 'This Close' to Establishing a 30-Hour Workweek

Interesting that even though Congress overturned the Senate's decision to pass the Black-Connery bill in 1933, which would've established a 6-hour work day/30-hour work week, some businesses, including Kellog, implemented a 6-hour work day anyway and saw improvements in productivity and, naturally, reductions in unemployment. Kellog didn't fully phase out the shorter work day until the mid-1980s. It'd be nice if companies started bringing it back. The deciding factro, as the article notes in Kellogg's case, is the cost of benefits to so many additional employees. Could there be a way to work this out? Inverted income tax for example? Basic Income? With corporate profits so high, couldn't it still be feasible to take on more workers while reducing our work day, the top CEOs' salaries not withstanding?

http://www.alternet.org/labor/when-america-came-close-establishing-30-hour-workweek