Author: Georges Friedmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782070225910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Author: Jacques Freyssinet
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :

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Author: Vivian Shalla
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773531408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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An incisive analysis of the transformation of paid and unpaid work in contemporary Canada.

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ISBN: 2738183492
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Author: Jens Thoemmes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135077649
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working norms are fractured and fragmented by country. This book brings an entirely new perspective to our understanding of changes in working time. In both the UK and the US, effective legal or collectively-bargained regulation of working time has been limited over the last 20 years, to the extent that its disappearance is seen as almost unproblematic. Here author Jens Thoemmes sheds light on this transition and its economic implications with a fully evidenced sociological account, based particularly on original research into cases of working time standards in France and Germany. This book addresses the whole process of working time regulation over the last twenty years, evaluating the activities of trade unions, employers, and the State. While theories of industrial relations have already addressed the issue of markets in the context of collective bargaining, this book draws connections between time and markets, places these transitions in their historical contexts, and illustrates the importance of this movement crossing borders and cultures.

Author: Deborah M. Figart
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134585519
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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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.

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Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749521173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Author: Georges Friedmann
Publisher:
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Category : Automation
Languages : fr
Pages : 356

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Author: Jacques Freyssinet
Publisher: Editions de l'Atelier
ISBN: 9782708232860
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : fr
Pages : 276

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Depuis plus de vingt années, le thème de la réduction de la durée du travail revient périodiquement au centre du débat politique et social : Or à l'exception de 1982, aucune réduction notable de la durée du travail n'a en lieu pour les travailleurs à temps plein tandis que se multipliaient les formes d'emploi à temps partiel ou intermittent. D'où le questionnement : si une réduction forte et généralisée de la durée du travail est un instrument efficace de la politique de l'emploi face à un chômage massif, pourquoi n'a-t-on pas su la mettre en oeuvre ? Si elle est inopérante voire nocive, comment expliquer la récurrence de ce thème ? L'ouvrage tente de répondre à ces questions en analysant les mécanismes du blocage tant dans la politique de l'Etat que dans la négociation collective. Au moment où la loi Robien fait l'objet de débats contradictoires, cet ouvrage écrit par l'un des meilleurs analystes des politiques de l'emploi sera une référence indispensable à qui veut bénéficier d'une réflexion documentée et fouillée sur la question du temps de travail.

Author: Jane Jenson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000160386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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This was first published in 2000: This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and of gender relations fail to recognize two things. First, the situation facing women is different from that of the 1960s when the conceptual apparatuses for analyzing "women and work" were created. Labour markets are dominated by flexible, non-standard work, precarious contractual relations and income disparities. Therefore, it is difficult to structure political claims or analysis around the notion that there is a single labour market, that the primary problem is discrimination or inappropriate training, and that political strategies should focus on discrimination and non-traditional employment. Rather, new challenges require new solutions. The second point of departure is that is is impossible to understand either contemporary labour markets, or the roots of employment and other public policies without locating them vis a vis patterns of gender inequalities generated by and in these labour markets. The labour force has been feminized to such an extent that new, and often unequal gender relations are crucial to their very functioning.