Working Time Around the World - Trends in Working Hours, Laws, Policies in a Global Comparative

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

List of figures, List of tables, List of boxes, List of contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Legal progress towards reducing working hours, Chapter 3: Global trends in actual working hours, Chapter 4: Gender, age and working time, Chapter 5: Tertiarization, informalization and working time, Chapter 6: Working time issues in developing countries, Chapter 7: Summary and implications for policy, Bibliography, Statistical Annex

Summary

First Published in 2007. Lee, McCann and Messenger trace the theoretical background of the concept of working time before examining recent trends in working time laws in developing countries and countries in transition. The study then shifts its focus to developments in selected countries, considering both broad trends in working time at a national level and the structure and dynamics underlying these trends. The authors provide a remarkable set of policy suggestions that preserve health and safety, are ?family- friendly?, promote gender equality, enhance productivity and facilitate workers? choice and influence over their working hours. This book will be of great interest to policy-makers engaged with working conditions or health and safety, labour market experts, trade union leaders and workers? organizations, as well as academics and researchers in the fields of industrial relations, labour economics and labour law.

Product details

• Authors: Sangheon Lee, Sangheon (International Labour Office Lee, Lee Sangheon, Deirdre McCann, Deirdre (International Labour Office McCann, McCann Deirdre, Jon C. Messenger, Jon C. (International Labour Office Messenger, Jon C. Lee Messenger, Messenger Jon C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2016
• EAN: 9781138997561
• ISBN: 978-1-138-99756-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Labor & Employment, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Personnel & human resources management, Sociology: work & labour, Economics of industrial organisation, Personnel and human resources management, Sociology: work and labour, Employment & Labour Law, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Economics of industrial organization, Employment and labour law: general