Screen LibraryCapitalism and the political economy of work time /
"This book will provide the first comprehensive and systematic overview of the attitudes of different schools of thought towards the issue of work time. Topics covered include assumptions on what determines the length of the work day and week, changes in production systems and their consequence...
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Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge frontiers of political economy
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| Summary: |
"This book will provide the first comprehensive and systematic overview of the attitudes of different schools of thought towards the issue of work time. Topics covered include assumptions on what determines the length of the work day and week, changes in production systems and their consequences for work time, as well as the struggle for shorter work hours and resulting work time regulations. Having fallen during the postwar decades, working hours in many countries have either stagnated or increased since the 1980s. Furthermore, despite record high unemployment, permanent work time reduction "John M. Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would only work fifteen hours a week. In the mid-1960s, Jean Fourastié still anticipated the introduction of the thirty-five hour week in the year 2000 when productivity would continue to grow at the established pace. Productivity growth slowed down somewhat in the 1970s and '80s, but rebounded in the 1990s with the spread of new information and communication technologies. The knowledge economy, however, did not bring about a jobless future or a world without work as some scholars had predicted. With few exceptions, work hours of fu |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201- 227) and index. |
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9780415810234 (hardback) : 041581023X (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HD5106 |
| CLC: |
F03 F119 F245 |
| Call Number: | F245/H552 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Neoclassical, Weberian, and institutionalist perspectives -- Marxist, post-Marxist, and feminist perspectives -- Causes and consequences: debating work time theories -- From Fordism to lean production -- The fragmented world of service work -- Gender persistence in domestic work -- The establishment of a normal work day and week -- Work time reduction and flexibilization -- Neoliberalism and the surge in work hours -- Capitalism and work time. |