Of course they do. I don't mind workin' in the fields so Jeb can live in the mansion. How 'bout you.
As far as "growing the economy," working longer hours would do it.
A 1% increase in total hours worked and in labor income, assuming the 1% was spent, would grow the economy.
Don't you think that would be dependent on the work being necessary though? Hours worked seems to me to be dependent upon the amount of work there is to be done, not the other way around. The question isn't as simple as just working more hours, it's how do we create policies that create more work that necessitate more hours to be worked? If it was a simple as just working more hours, FDR's New Deal would have been a smashing success, and I don't find too many conservatives who think that it was.