Riva Poor

Riva Poor

Riva Poor was a management consultant who lobbied for a compressed workweek.

Poor received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1970, when she started a public relations campaign calling for a work week which compressed its working time into fewer days. Her immediate goal, which was ultimately achieved, was repeal of the 8-hour workday provisions in the Walsh-Healey Act, a 1936 law requiring minimum labor standards in the production of goods, under contract, for the federal government, and the related Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act. In 1970, Poor also edited and published a book about the restructured work week, "4 Days, 40 Hours". Poor continued to work as a consultant and lecturer.

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* "This article uses material from [http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/crs/ascii/98-371 Federal Regulation of Working Hours ] , a public-domain document written by the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress."
* [http://alumweb.mit.edu/groups/amita.old/newsletters/amita122000.pdf MIT alumnae newsletter] .


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