Work Less
New Strategies for a Changing Workplace
Published on 2. January 2024
296 pages
978-1-4597-5133-0 (ISBN)
Description
- A labour policy expert argues for a shortened work week, enabled by new technologies, which will improve the health and life of workers
- Author is an acclaimed journalist and author the textbook Canadian Industrial Relations
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03/2024
Dundurn Press
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Jon Peirce has been writing about work hours and the world of work for much of the past twenty-five years. He has worked as a journalist, university professor, and union staffer, and is the author of Canadian Industrial Relations. Jon lives and writes in Gatineau, Quebec.
Content
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Working Ourselves Sick
- 3. The Great Resignation and its Effect on Work Hours
- 4. Historical Development of Work Hours, I: The US and Canada
- 5. Historical Development of Work Hours, II: Work Hours around the World
- 6. A Special Decade: Work Hours during the 1920s
- 7. Technology, Work Intensification, Stress, and Distress
- 8. The Right to Disconnect
- 9. Hybrid Workplaces and Their Implications for Work Hours
- 10. What's Been Happening Lately on the Shorter Hours Scene
- 11. Recommendations
