Working Time Around the World: Trends in Working Hours, Laws, and Policies in a Global Comparative PerspectiveRoutledge, 31. maj 2007 - 240 sider 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. |
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1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Legal progress towards reducing working hours | 7 |
3 Global trends in actual working hours | 22 |
4 Gender age and working time | 64 |
5 Tertiarization informalization and working time | 86 |
6 Working time issues in developing countries | 120 |
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48 hours actual working hours Berkovsky Brazil cent Chapter Chile China country studies Czech Republic developing and transition developing countries domestic workers enterprises Esponda example family responsibilities Female flexi-time flexibility Galasi Geneva global hours a week hours per week Hungary ILO’s impact income individual industrialized countries influence informal economy informal employment Jamaica job Hours 1995 labour force labour market legislation long hours long working hours Malaysia Male McCann measures normal hours observance rate overtime oyment paid employees participation pattern Peru productivity Programme unpublished report proportion recent reduction reflected regulation Republic of Korea retail Russian Federation self-employed workers self-employment service sector shift short hours significant social standards statutory hours substantial survey total employment transition countries transition economies trends try Gender underemployment Unknown Uruguay Variable hours wage weekly rest weekly working hours work—family World Bank