Format:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
ISBN:
9780415810234
Series Statement:
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Content:
John Maynard Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would only work 15 hours a week. In the mid-1960s, Jean Fourastié still anticipated the introduction of the 30-hour week in the year 2000, when productivity would continue to grow at an established pace. Productivity growth slowed down somewhat in the 1970s and 1980s, but rebounded in the 1990s with the spread of new information and communication technologies. The knowledge economy, however, did not bring about a jobless future or a world without work, as some scholars had predicted. With few exceptions, work hours of full-time empl
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I Work time theories; 2 Neoclassical, Weberian, and institutionalist perspectives; 3 Marxist, post-Marxist, and feminist perspectives; 4 Causes and consequences: debating work time theories; Part II Work time, production, and reproduction; 5 From Fordism to lean production; 6 The fragmented world of service work; 7 Gender persistence in domestic work; Part III Work time struggles; 8 The establishment of a normal work day and week
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9 Work time reduction and flexibilizationPart IV Conclusions; 10 Neoliberalism and the surge in work hours; 11 Capitalism and work time; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317596349
Additional Edition:
Print version Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time
Language:
English
Keywords:
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