Talk:Three-Day Week

message: From personal memory, there was also a rolling programme of power cuts and Television services were suspended after 9:30pm.
I was only 15, so do not remember clearly if this was part of the Three Day Week period or at another time close to it.  Can anyone confirm this and provide more precise info for a page edit?  -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Burgh House (talk • contribs) 12:26, 2006 November 17 
:Definately, I remember maps being published in newspapers indicating which areas would get power cuts on which days (I was 19). If somebody could find a copy of these, it would make a great picture for this article. This article needs lots more content. I remember factories working either Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday or Thursday-Friday-Saturday depending on the power-cut rota. The phrase "Three-Day Week" is still thrown around, but most people are now too young to remember it and it is slowly getting forgotten. TiffaF 09:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking the same thing. This article needs more about the mpact on daily like in Britain. (What did schools do - I was at school at the time, but don't remember. -- Beardo (talk) 12:06, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memories 

message: I have heard, but I don't have any proof at all, that productivity actually went up during the 3 day week as everyone was no doubt working as hard as they could when they were there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.254.77.5 (talk) 12:27, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I was taught this at school as well by an older teacher who remembered the events very well. I have no citation for this, and I wasn't alive at the time, but it would be very interesting if someone could find more about this. Parkinson's Law about work filling the time available might well apply here, it could be that we spread work out the more time we're given to do it, instead of just getting more done. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.146.47.250 (talk) 01:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greater efficency 

message: Power cuts are mentioned regularly during the BBC series set in 1973.  -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.254.77.5 (talk • contribs) 12:28, 2006 December 19
The Life On Mars website states millions of people getting fired as a result of the 3-day week. 62.219.112.249 (talk) 13:43, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life on Mars 

message: I'd love to know how restaurants can be classified as "essential services" LOL  Thats ridiculous.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.198.33.252 (talk) 13:29, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And how were people with electric cookers meant to get a hot meal in January and February during power cuts if the restaurants are also closed? MidlandLinda (talk) 21:14, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I was about 7 then, and remember my mum cooking on a camping stove, and toasting bread on the open coal fire. We used candles and hotwater bottles. Looking back, it must have been desperate (far north of Scotland), but as a child, it seemed like a bit of an adventure. 2A00:23C7:6F89:BF01:4CBD:EF21:6CAE:A8B2 (talk) 22:47, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Essential services 

message: Although it is only mentioned as an aside, the Mid-East Oil Crisis of 1973 was a much more potent cause of the 3-day week than any action by coal-miners, which followed on. The miners were placed under increasing pressure to produce more and more coal with scant regard to their pay and conditions. I speak only from memory - I was 30 at the time. Fairlightseven 01.09.09   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.9.144.100 (talk) 12:21, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oil crisis 

message: BBC says Heath began 3-day week on 9 Feb 1972
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/16/newsid_2757000/2757099.stm
This link suggests there was a 9.30pm TV closedown (due to power rationing) in September 1972
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9c0019949ef94d40b3fbbc7cb9215efd  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enospagans (talk • contribs) 11:16, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong dates? 

message: Re. 'Background' I'm not sure how events in 1974 and 1975 can be background to events in 1973.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:4C69:FB00:E946:AE0:DFA2:CBEB (talk) 12:01, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was Heath a time traveller? 

message: I have added this to :Category:1974 labor disputes and strikes as the miners' strike was central to the issues, so it seems logical that this article should be in the category. Dunarc (talk) 22:58, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories