Working Time (eBook, ePUB)

International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives
Redaktion: Figart, Deborah M.; Golden, Lonnie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the first comprehensive analyis of both paid and unpaid work time, integrating a unique discussion of overwork, underwork, shortening of the working week and flexible work practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134585519
• Artikelnr.: 42636332

Autorenporträt

Lonnie Golden is Associate Professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University. Deborah M. Figart is Professor of Economics at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

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;