Working time around the world : trends in working hours, laws and policies in a global comparative perspective

Author(s)

• Lee, Sangheon
• McCann, Deirdre M.
• Messenger, Jon C. (Jon Carleton)
• International Labour Organisation

Bibliographic Information

Working time around the world : trends in working hours, laws and policies in a global comparative perspective

Sangheon Lee, Deirdre McCann and Jon C. Messenger

（Routledge studies in the modern world economy）

Routledge , ILO, 2007

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table 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

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Details

• NCID: BA8260864X
• ISBN:
  • 9780415439374
• LCCN: 2007004840
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London,Geneva
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 220 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD5106
  • DC22 : 331.25/7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hours of labor
  • LCSH : Hours of labor -- Law and legislation
  • LCSH : Labor laws and legislation
  • LCSH : Hours of labor -- Cross-cultural studies
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA26782844