
Working Time Around the World
Trends in Working Hours, Laws, and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 17. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-138-99756-1 (ISBN)
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
14 s/w Abbildungen, 14 s/w Zeichnungen, 88 s/w Tabellen
88 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-99756-1 (9781138997561)
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Jon C. Messenger | Sangheon Lee | Deirdre McCann
Working Time Around the World
Trends in Working Hours, Laws, and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective
Book
05/2007
1st Edition
Routledge
€222.84
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Jon C. Messenger | Sangheon Lee | Deirdre McCann
Working Time Around the World
Trends in Working Hours, Laws, and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective
E-Book
05/2007
Routledge
€67.49
Available for download

Jon C. Messenger | Sangheon Lee | Deirdre McCann
Working Time Around the World
Trends in Working Hours, Laws, and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective
E-Book
05/2007
Routledge
€67.49
Available for download
Persons
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.
Content
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