Working Time In Comparative Perspective
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| Author | : Ging Wong |
| Publisher | : W.E. Upjohn Institute |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 088099228X |
Comprises a collection of papers which examine recent changes in the distribution of weekly working time in Canada and the United States, the implications of the changing distribution of hours worked for earnings inequality, and efforts to reduce unemployment through mandated hours reductions. Analyses also general patterns and trends in working time over the life cycle and nonstandard employment arrangements. Covers mainly the period from the 1970s to 1990s.
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| Publisher | : W.E. Upjohn Institute |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0880992301 |
Eleven contributions from international researchers examine working time over the life cycle and nonstandard work arrangements in the U.S. and Canada. The papers were originally presented at a conference on working time held in Ottawa, Ontario in June of 1996. Topics include, for example, adults returning to school, moonlighting, self-employment for married females, the changing use of temporary workers, and early retirement. c. Book News Inc.
| Author | : Jon C. Messenger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2007-05-31 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 113407039X |
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Lei Delsen |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2009-04-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3790821853 |
This volume is the second book based on comparative and comprehensive data from the 2003 representative European Union Company survey of Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The EUCOWE project is the first representative and standardised European company survey which covers all categories of firm sizes and all sectors of the economy. This volume complements and builds on the first book published in 2007, in which the methodology and the descriptive national findings as well as some first comparative analytical results were presented. In this second book the EUCOWE research team presents in-depth cross-country analyses of the relationship between operating hours, working times and employment in the European Union. Six empirical chapters of this volume provide detailed comparative analyses of the determinants and consequences of the duration and flexibility of opening hours and operating times.
| Author | : Deborah M. Figart |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134585519 |
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.
| Author | : Noam Gidron |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2020-12-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108912249 |
American political observers express increasing concern about affective polarization, i.e., partisans' resentment toward political opponents. We advance debates about America's partisan divisions by comparing affective polarization in the US over the past 25 years with affective polarization in 19 other western publics. We conclude that American affective polarization is not extreme in comparative perspective, although Americans' dislike of partisan opponents has increased more rapidly since the mid-1990s than in most other Western publics. We then show that affective polarization is more intense when unemployment and inequality are high; when political elites clash over cultural issues such as immigration and national identity; and in countries with majoritarian electoral institutions. Our findings situate American partisan resentment and hostility in comparative perspective, and illuminate correlates of affective polarization that are difficult to detect when examining the American case in isolation.
| Author | : International Labour Office |
| Publisher | : International Labour Organization |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9789221179504 |
Including international comparative analysis alongside national case studies, this volume offers a wealth of information on the new trends which have emerged over the past decades - all of which were discussed at the recent 9th International Symposium on Working Time, Paris (2004). It looks at the increasing use of results-based employment relationships for managers and professionals, and the increasing fragmentation of time to more closely tailor staffing needs to customer requirements (e.g., short-hours, part-time work). Moreover, as operating/opening hours rapidly expand toward a 24-hour and 7-day economy, the book considers how this has resulted in a growing diversification, decentralization, and individualization of working hours, as well as an increasing tension between enterprises' business requirements and workers' needs and preferences regarding their hours. This new reality has raised some other challenging issues as well and the volume addresses those such as increasing employment insecurity and instability, time-related social inequalities, particularly in relation to gender, workers' ability to balance their paid work with their personal lives, and even the synchronization of working hours with social times, such as community activities.
| Author | : William K. Cummings |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2014-12-02 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 331911767X |
This book is the first of two volumes that look at the changed landscape of higher education and the academic profession. This volume focuses on academic work, examining the significant changes that have taken place in the backgrounds, specialisations, expectations and work roles of academic staff. The academic profession is ageing, and becoming increasingly insecure, more accountable, more internationalised and less likely to be organised along disciplinary lines. The private sector is more prominent, expectations from society are different and increasing, professional roles are evolving, and there is a new devotion to knowledge. This leads to questions about the attractiveness of an academic career and the quest for greater relevance of research. This book discusses in detail the themes that are common in this changed arena, such as the context for change, the relation of teaching to research, research productivity, applied and commercial research, and the relevance of teaching and research.
| Author | : Cynthia L. Negrey |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2013-04-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0745660584 |
Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Cynthia Negrey examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic change and the gender division of labor to ask: what are the historical, cultural, public policy, and business sources of current work-time practices? Topics addressed include work-time reduction in the US culminating in the 40-hour statute of 1938, recent trends in annual and weekly hours, overtime, part-time work, temporary employment, work-family integration, and international comparisons. She focuses on the US in a global context and explores how a new political economy of work time is taking shape. This book brings together existing knowledge from sociology, anthropology, history, labor economics, and family studies to answer its central question and will change the way upper-level students think about the time we devote to work.
| Author | : Jürgen Kocka |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2010-02-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1845457978 |
Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations between gender and work, working and soldiering, work and trust, constructions and practices. The volume focuses on Germany but also places the case studies in a broader European context. It thus offers an insight into social and cultural history as practiced by German-speaking scholars today but also introduces the reader to ongoing research in this field.
