Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives

Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives

Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives

Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives

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Overview

Working time is a crucial issue for both research and public policy. This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of both paid and unpaid work time, integrating a unique discussion of overwork, underwork, shortening of the working week, and flexible work practices.
Time at work is affected by a complex web of evolving culture and social relations, as well as market, technological, and macroeconomic forces, and institutions such as collective bargaining and government policy. Using a variety of new data sources, the authors review the latest trends on working time in numerous countries.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134585519
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/11/2013
Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

Deborah M. Figart, Lonnie Golden

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction and overview, Deborah M. Figart, Lonnie Golden; Part 1 Current trends and patterns in work hours; Chapter 2 The enigma of working time trends, Barry Bluestone, Stephen Rose; Chapter 3 Working time reduction in the European Union, Steffen Lehndorff; Chapter 4 The longest day, Robert Drago, Robert Caplan, David Costanza, Tanya Brubaker, Darnell Cloud, Naomi Harris, Russell Kashian, T. Lynn Riggs; Chapter 5 Working hours and time pressure, Juliet B. Schor; Part 2 Empirical and theoretical foundations; Chapter 6 Who are the overworked Americans?, Jerry A. Jacobs, Kathleen Gerson; Chapter 7 The incentive to work hard, Linda A. Bell; Chapter 8 Driven to spend, David George; Chapter 9 Natural, social, and political limits to work time, Paul Burkett; Chapter 10 Revising the labor supply curve, Robert E. Prasch; Part 3 Innovations in working time and public policy; Chapter 11 Working time reductions, employment consequences and lessons from Europe, Gerhard Bosch; Chapter 12 The lump-of-labor case against work-sharing, Tom Walker; Chapter 13 Better timing?, Lonnie Golden; Chapter 14 The social implications of European work time policies, Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart; Chapter 15 History and housework, Laura Leete;
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