Tom Walker has been a peace and social justice activist since the 1960s. He works a three-day week as a clerk/cashier at the East End Food Co-op in Vancouver, B.C. On the other four days, he conducts research on shorter working time. He has published two scholarly articles on the economists’ chimerical lump-of-labour fallacy, a conference paper on Sydney J. Chapman’s theory of the “Hours of Labour,” a review of Robert LaJeunesse’s Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy: the Social Effort Bargain (forthcoming). He has also lectured and been interviewed on television, radio, and film on the topic of working time.
He is currently writing The Gift of Prosperity, a historical survey of controversy, insights, and misconceptions surrounding the economics of working time, leisure, productivity, wages, and employment.

