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Working Time and Workers' Preferences in Industrialized Countries: Finding the Balance

Working Time and Workers' Preferences in Industrialized Countries: Finding the Balance

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0415701082
ISBN13: 9780415701082
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 9 2004
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

The gradual reduction in weekly working hours in the first half of the last century, which culminated in the widespread adoption of the 'standard' working week by the 1960s, was grounded in a concern for health and safety and for the preservation of time outside of paid labour.

Over the last few decades, however, this progressive standardization of working time has given way to a diversification and individualization in working hours as employers have responded to the competitive pressures of globalization by requiring that productivity be enhanced through changes in working-time schedules.

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