Working Time And Workers Preferences In Industrialized Countries

Author : Jon C. Messenger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135993327
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Time and Workers' Preferences in Industrialized Countries written by Jon C. Messenger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we enter the new century, a common goal has emerged: the removal or liberalization of restrictions on unsocial hours and the variation of working hours. This book draws together an international team to examine the process.

Author : Jon C. Messenger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135993319
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Time and Workers' Preferences in Industrialized Countries written by Jon C. Messenger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gradual reduction in weekly working hours in the first half of the last century, which culminated in the widespread adoption of the 'standard' working week by the 1960s, was grounded in a concern for health and safety and for the preservation of time outside of paid labour.Over the last few decades, however, this progressive standardization of

Author : Jon C. Messenger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134070381
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Time Around the World written by Jon C. Messenger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : International Institute for Labour Studies
Publisher : Geneva : International Institute for Labour Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Times are Changing written by International Institute for Labour Studies and published by Geneva : International Institute for Labour Studies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors from 14 countries come together to compare developments in the organization of working time. The countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the USSR and the USA.

Author : Susan Hayter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849809836
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy written by Susan Hayter and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace concerns in the context of today.s global economy. Globalization can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, it also puts employment, earnings and labourstandards at risk. This book examines the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages. It focuses on a commonly neglected side of the story and demonstrates the positivecontribution that collective bargaining can make to both economic and social goals. The various contributions examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different countries and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. They highlight the numerouschallenges in this regard and the critically important role that governments play in rebalancing bargaining power in a global economy. The chapters are written in an accessible style and deal with practical subjects, including employment security, workplace change and productivity and working time.

Author : Ania Zbyszewska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316654168
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendering European Working Time Regimes written by Ania Zbyszewska and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standard approach to regulating working hours rests on gendered assumptions about how paid and unpaid work ought to be divided. In this book, Ania Zbyszewska takes a feminist, socio-legal approach to evaluate whether the contemporary European working time regimes can support a more equal sharing of this work. Focusing on the legal and political developments surrounding the EU's Working Time Directive and the reforms of Poland's Labour Code, Zbyszewska reveals that both regimes retain this traditional gender bias, and suggests the reasons for its persistence. She employs a wide range of data sources and uses the Polish case to assess the EU influence over national policy discourse and regulation, with the broader transnational policy trends also considered. This book combines legal analysis with social and political science concepts to highlight law's constitutive role and relational dimensions, and to reflect on the relationship between discursive politics and legal action.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9221153649
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hours of Work written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey examines the content and application of ILO Conventions relating to minimum standards of working hours (particularly Convention no. 1 and no. 30 covering maximum hours of work for industrial workers, and those in offices and commercial sectors respectively) as a basis for reviewing the existing system of international regulation of work time arrangements. Topics covered include: methods of application, including legislation, collective agreements and arbitration awards; normal and actual hours of work; variable distribution of working hours; Convention ratification and enforcement; national policies and practice; and consultation arrangements.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221179504
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decent Working Time written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Damian Grimshaw
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611707X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making work more equal written by Damian Grimshaw and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the growing use by employers of precarious forms of work, the contradictory approaches of governments towards employment and social policy, and the ability of trade unions to improve the distribution of decent employment conditions. The book proposes a ‘new labour market segmentation approach’ for the investigation of issues of job quality, employment inequalities, and precarious work. This approach is distinctive in seeking to place the changing international patterns and experiences of labour market inequalities in the wider context of shifting gender relations, regulatory regimes and production structures.

Author : Lourdes Mella Méndez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527525708
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health at Work, Ageing and Environmental Effects on Future Social Security and Labour Law Systems written by Lourdes Mella Méndez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses the most important problems and challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, and how these factors affect both the way people work and their rights. The contributions here focus on the main challenges for social security systems, lawmakers and trade unions, and provide important solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems. Other topics analysed here include dress-codes and whistleblowing in companies. From the labour point of view, workers’ representatives and trade unions must take action in collective bargaining to deal with these topics and adequately protect the workforce. The authors here are drawn from countries such as Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, Brazil and Colombia, providing a global perspective. The book will appeal to lawyers, legal and human resources experts, economists, judges, academics and staff from trade unions and employers’ representation. The volume features insights and contributions in different languages, with chapters in Spanish (13), English (7) and Portuguese (2).