Working Time Around the World

Informationen zum Autor Jon C. Messenger, Sangheon Lee, Deirdre McCann are Research and Senior Officers for the Conditions of Work and Employment Programme at the International Labour Office in Geneva. They contributed to Working Time and Workers? Preferences in Industrialized Countries (Messenger, ed., 2004) also published by Routledge. Zusammenfassung Despite a century-long optimism about reduced working hours and some progress in legal measures limiting working hours, this book demonstrates that differences in actual working hours between industrialized and developing countries remain considerable - without any clear sign of hours being reduced. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Sangheon Lee, Sang-Heon 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, Messenger Jon C., Tony Proctor
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2007
• EAN: 9780415439374
• ISBN: 978-0-415-43937-4
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General