{"id":3561,"date":"2024-07-01T17:17:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2024-09-03T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:00:57","slug":"artifact-ithaca-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/artifact-ithaca-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Ithaca Hours and time-based currencies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<header class=\"entry-header bg-adp-tan block--article-header alignfull block--article-header\" >\n\n  \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full entry--image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1321\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-header.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-header.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-header-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-header-1024x705.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-header-768x528.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-header-50x34.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-header-1600x1101.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-header-1536x1057.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A selection of Ithaca Hours currency. Courtesy of The History Center in Tompkins County<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group entry--title-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"entry--social-share\">\n  <ul>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/artifact-ithaca-hours\/&#038;t=Ithaca Hours and time-based currencies\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/rethink-quarterly\/img\/facebook.svg\" alt=\"Facebook logo - click to share this article on Facebook\"><\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Ithaca Hours and time-based currencies\u00a0&#038;url=https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/artifact-ithaca-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/rethink-quarterly\/img\/twitter.svg\" alt=\"Twitter logo - click to share this article on Twitter\"><\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frethinkq.adp.com%2Fartifact-ithaca-hours%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/rethink-quarterly\/img\/linkedin.svg\" alt=\"LinkedIn logo - click to share this article on Facebook\"><\/a><\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n            <a class=\"entry--tag tag-style\" href=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/artifact\/\">Artifact<\/a>\n\n        \n  <h1 class=\"entry-title\">Ithaca Hours and time-based currencies\u00a0<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-summary-style\">An experiment in 1990s New York was a fairly recent example of a centuries-old idea: local currency projects based on labor.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  <div class=\"entry--meta content-width\">\n           <p class=\"authors\">By\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/author\/lou-martin\/\">Dr. Lou Martin<\/a>\n\n             \n         \n     <\/p>\n    \n  \n  <p>1 July 2024  <span class=\"desktop-only\">\u2014<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/issue-12-resilience\/\">Issue 12: Resilience<\/a> \n  <\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\n<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\t<div class=\"entry-content content-width\">\n\n\n\n<p>In 1991, an experiment started in Ithaca, New York, a town of 32,000 about a four-hour drive from New York City. Paul Glover, a community organizer who had been an urban studies professor at Temple University, had 1,500 Ithaca Hours notes printed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulglover.org\/hourcurrency.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">On the front<\/a> of his new currency was an engraving of nearby Lick Brook Falls. A banner over the image read \u201cIn Ithaca We Trust,\u201d and below it: \u201cOne Hour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What followed was a surprisingly successful attempt to create a time-based community currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glover had a variety of concerns that he hoped Ithaca Hours would help address. First, when residents and visitors alike spent their dollars in town, much of that money left the community as corporate profits or tax dollars, which were spent elsewhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe printed our own money because &#8230; [Ithaca Hours] stay in our region to help us hire each other,\u201d he wrote. Homeowners could hire a repair person and pay for their labor in Ithaca Hours, and in turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time-based_currency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some 500 businesses<\/a>, including a credit union, accepted the notes as the equivalent of $10 per Ithaca Hour. At their height, homeowners could even use Ithaca Hours to make mortgage payments at the credit union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ithaca-Hours-FBO-0125-15-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ithaca-Hours-FBO-0125-15-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ithaca-Hours-FBO-0125-15-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ithaca-Hours-FBO-0125-15-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ithaca-Hours-FBO-0125-15-50x34.jpg 50w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ithaca-Hours-FBO-0125-15.jpg 1497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br>An early gathering of Ithaca Hours members in 1991. Courtesy of The History Center in Tompkins County<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Origins of time-based currencies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Glover was inspired to create his time-based currency after learning about similar systems introduced in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s. Those decades witnessed the rise of manufacturing, wage labor and a cash economy, as well as growing anxiety about where those developments might lead. These worries produced a flurry of ideas, including new cooperative communities \u2014 such as Shaker villages \u2014 based on communal property and gender equality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One such would-be utopia was Robert Owen\u2019s community of New Harmony, Indiana. Owen had made his fortune as a textile mill owner in Scotland, and like many, he paid his workers in scrip that was redeemable at the company store. While Owen offered quality goods at fair prices, most industrialists used the system as a way to control and exploit their employees, eventually leading Parliament to <a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/artifact-coal-company-scrip-miners\/\">outlaw the use of scrip<\/a> beginning in 1831.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen wanted to go the other way, creating a self-sufficient model community where residents invested in a cooperatively owned enterprise and earned credit at a community store through their labor. In 1825, he bought New Harmony to launch his experiment. After a few years, the project had failed as a social reform enterprise but had succeeded in creating an important center for science and research. The town attracted sincere, hardworking people, but also some \u201ccrackpots\u201d that contributed to its downfall, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Harmony,_Indiana#cite_ref-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one historian<\/a> observed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"block--sidebar bg-adp-navy alignleft\"><div class=\"block--sidebar__inner\">\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-64491916db632a2fd19dbc80d56bea16\" style=\"font-size:28px\">ADP&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.adp.com\/who-we-serve\/by-business-size\/global.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">global payroll solutions<\/a> help your business navigate even the most unique local rules and regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/adp-logo-1024x540.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3433\" style=\"width:50px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/adp-logo-1024x540.png 1024w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/adp-logo-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/adp-logo-768x405.png 768w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/adp-logo-50x26.png 50w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/adp-logo.png 1238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>One disappointed New Harmony resident was Josiah Warren. Warren wanted to carry on certain aspects of the experiment, but he believed one of New Harmony\u2019s fatal flaws was its reliance on communal ownership. Warren would become known for two things. One was being an early evangelist for individual sovereignty and personal property. The other was his experimental Cincinnati Time Store, which he started in 1827.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The store\u2019s first innovation was that Warren priced his goods at the costs incurred plus 7%. The idea was that goods should only be sold at the cost of the labor to make them, which was known as the labor theory of value. The 7% was to cover his labor for handling the goods, but the system was supposed to prevent people from making a profit beyond the cost of the labor that went into it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second unique aspect&nbsp; was a system of \u201clabor notes\u201d that Warren created based on hours of labor. The store had a board where customers could advertise what kinds of labor they needed or would perform, such as carpentry or farm labor. Like Ithaca Hours, a worker could earn more notes based on the difficulty of the labor. That was, incidentally, one of the flaws of the system \u2014 the idea that not all labor was equal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked if he created the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/josiah-warren-the-peaceful-revolutionist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">time currency<\/a>, Warren bristled. He did not \u201cconsider any man the originator of principles or truths,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe only discover and develop them.\u201d Believing the experiment had been a success, Warren closed the store after three years to move on to other projects. 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sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A labor for labor note for the Cincinnati Time Store from the book \u201cEquitable Commerce\u201d (1846) by Josiah Warren.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center gutenslider-content-initial has-larger-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"swiper-slide wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslide is-position-bottom-center ed-bg-none\" style=\"--slide-min-width:80%;\" data-hash=\"\"><div class=\"eedee-background-div no-media-background\"><div class=\"eedee-background-div__overlay\" style=\"opacity:1;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"slide-content\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"967\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Truck_system_of_payment_by_order_of_Robert_Owen_and_Benj_Woolfield_July_22nd_1833_1294620.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3564\" 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Courtesy National Library of Wales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"swiper-slide wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslide is-position-bottom-center ed-bg-none\" style=\"--slide-min-width:80%;\" data-hash=\"\"><div class=\"eedee-background-div no-media-background\"><div class=\"eedee-background-div__overlay\" style=\"opacity:1;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"slide-content\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/One_sixth_of_an_hour_labour_voucher-1024x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/One_sixth_of_an_hour_labour_voucher-1024x528.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/One_sixth_of_an_hour_labour_voucher-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/One_sixth_of_an_hour_labour_voucher-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/One_sixth_of_an_hour_labour_voucher-50x26.jpg 50w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/One_sixth_of_an_hour_labour_voucher-1600x825.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/One_sixth_of_an_hour_labour_voucher-1536x792.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/One_sixth_of_an_hour_labour_voucher-2048x1056.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Two one-sixth-hour labor vouchers produced for the National Equitable Labour Exchange of Birmingham, England, in 1833.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><button class=\"eedee-gutenslider-nav eedee-gutenslider-prev\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"><circle class=\"bg\" cx=\"13\" cy=\"12\" r=\"11\" \/><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0 0h24v24H0z\"\/><path class=\"arrow\" d=\"M10.828 12l4.95 4.95-1.414 1.414L8 12l6.364-6.364 1.414 1.414z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><button class=\"eedee-gutenslider-nav eedee-gutenslider-next\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"><circle class=\"bg\" cx=\"11\" cy=\"12\" r=\"11\" \/><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0 0h24v24H0z\"\/><path class=\"arrow\" d=\"M13.172 12l-4.95-4.95 1.414-1.414L16 12l-6.364 6.364-1.414-1.414z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><div class=\"eedee-gutenslider-pagination\"><\/div><div class=\"gutenslider-divider-bottom \" style=\"color:#fff;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Japan\u2019s time bank<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>More than a century later, another freethinker began an experiment in exchanging goods and services for time. Teruko Mizushima, the daughter of an Osaka merchant, gave birth at the start of World War II and was soon facing wartime food shortages. To get fresh vegetables, she offered to sew clothing for neighbors who were themselves struggling with clothing shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the war, Mizushima gained renown for a 1950 newspaper article describing a labor bank, explaining the possibility of a time-based currency and a bank that would enable the exchanges. In the years that followed, she became known for her social commentary and for speaking on national broadcasts. In 1973, she created the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teruko_Mizushima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Volunteer Labor Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within five years, the network included about 2,600 members. Many of them \u2014 but not all \u2014 were housewives like Mizushima. She ran the network from her home and organized the members into local branches to facilitate the exchanges. Over the next five years, several hundred more people joined the network. Volunteers exchanged nearly 500,000 hours of volunteer labor. But the organization relied heavily on Mizushima to keep it running. When she died in 1996 at the age of 76, the network declined in members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But her idea inspired others in Japan. In 1991, Tsutomu Hatta, a retired attorney general, proposed a time-based currency as a solution to the need for elder care in a nation with a rapidly aging population. In 1994, a group of organizers and attorneys produced a report based on the idea, announcing <em>fureai kippu<\/em> (caring relationship tickets) and an associated fund. They hoped to attract 12 million volunteers who would accrue hours by shopping for the elderly or helping with everyday tasks. Volunteers could use those hours to pay for services for their parents who might live in another part of the country \u2014 or save them for when they got older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to engineer and economist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/228788302_Complementary_Currencies_in_Japan_Today_History_Originality_and_Relevance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bernard Lietaer<\/a>, Japan experienced a boom in community currencies in the 1990s because of the 1990 economic crash. The Fureai Kippu network, for example, grew to have some 372 branches across the country and likely fell short of its goal of attracting 12 million volunteers, but many other community currencies started in this same period. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/316882220_Historical_transition_of_community_currencies_in_Japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One recent study<\/a> identified 792 community currencies in Japan. When researchers surveyed organizers about the reasons the currencies had been created, the top four answers were \u201ccreating connections among people,\u201d \u201cregional economic revitalization,\u201d \u201cpromotion of recycling,\u201d and \u201cnatural environment protection.\u201d These reasons were far different from the first time-based currencies of the early 1800s, which leads us back to Ithaca Hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-zoooom\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-large-1024x705.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-large-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-large-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-large-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-large-50x34.jpg 50w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-large-1600x1101.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-large-1536x1057.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ithaca-hours-large-2048x1409.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy of The History Center in Tompkins County<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ithaca and beyond<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While Josiah Warren and Robert Owen were concerned about the exploitation of laborers when they introduced time-based currencies, the creators of the new currencies in the 1990s, like Paul Glover, were motivated by other issues. Glover mentioned wars and rain forests. Just a few years earlier, in 1987, the United Nations had issued a report known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Brundtland-Report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brundtland Report<\/a> that was an early articulation of the challenge of sustainable development. International economic development was supposed to alleviate poverty, raise standards of living and reduce conflict, but it also brought ozone depletion, global warming and worsening food insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That same year, Glover wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulglover.org\/8702.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed<\/a> in a local Ithaca newspaper warning about the disappearance of farmland because of suburban sprawl and rapid population growth. One answer, he suggested, was to create local food systems. \u201cHow well could New York live from its own backyard?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Ithaca Hours proved successful for more than two decades, the currency&#8217;s use declined when Glover moved away from Ithaca.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And although many proponents of time-based currencies are thinking locally, others are thinking globally. In 2012, Gabriele Donati and Karim Varini, two friends from Switzerland, started <a href=\"https:\/\/timerepublik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TimeRepublik<\/a>, an online bank dealing in TimeCoins, each earned with 15 minutes of labor. Nearly a decade later, Donati <a href=\"https:\/\/formidablemen.com\/founders-of-timerepublik-gabriele-donati-and-karim-varini-find-help-and-help-others-by-trading-time-not-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> an online magazine journalist he and Varini had been inspired by a news story about tenants of an apartment building who exchanged favors and had the superintendent log them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis caught our attention, because for years we\u2019ve been talking about creating an alternative space that could value relationships rather than transactions,\u201d he said. \u201cA place based on reciprocity and abundance rather than hoarding and scarcity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now TimeRepublik has 100,000 users worldwide. While experiments such as the Cincinnati Time Store, the Volunteer Labor Network and Ithaca Hours have fallen by the wayside, the continued interest in time-based currencies suggests Josiah Warren may have been onto something.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"block--author\">      <div class=\"block-author__inner\">\n        <div class=\"author--image\">\n                      <a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/author\/lou-martin\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/profile_Martin-Lou-298x305.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n                  <\/div>\n        <div class=\"author--info\">\n                      <a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/author\/lou-martin\/\" class=\"author--name\">Dr. Lou Martin<\/a>\n\n          \n          <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Lou Martin is an associate professor of history at Chatham University, a cofounder of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, and a member of the advisory council of the Ohio River Valley Institute<\/span><\/p>\n          <div class=\"block--author-social\"><ul class=\"author--socials\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chatham.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/history\/faculty\/lou-martin.html\" title=\"Author Website\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fas fa-globe\"><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n       <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block--recommended-content alignwide is-style-bg-adp-tan\"><div class=\"block-recommended-content__inner\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read more<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"block--article-pushpoint pushpoint__small\">      <div class=\"block-article-pushpoint__inner\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/history-of-the-weekend\/\">\n        <div class=\"pushpoint--image\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rethinkq.adp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/m20080305051_01-1084x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"pushpoint--info\">\n                    <span class=\"pushpoint--title\">The history of the weekend<\/span>\n          <p>Thank goodness it\u2019s Friday? 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