Robert Lajeunesse

Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy

The Social Effort Bargain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a critique of reducing work hours and traditional full employment policies. This book instead advocates a policy of work time regulation that is not only appropriate for a 21st century post-industrial economy, but speaks to concerns about balancing work and family, environmental sustainability, and stabilizing incomes and prices.

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This book presents a careful, convincing critique of both reducing work hours and traditional full employment policies, advocating a policy of work time regulation that is appropriate for a twenty-first century post-industrial economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415460576
• ISBN-10: 0415460573
• Artikelnr.: 23605224

Autorenporträt

Robert LaJeunesse is a Senior Economist with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, DC

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Origins of the Work and Growth Fetish 2. Rethinking the
Work Fetish and the Growth Consensus 3. Work Time Regulation as a
Macroeconomic Policy Tool 4. The Ecological and Social Sustainability of
Work Time Regulation 5. The Employment Effects of Work Time Reduction 6. A
Proposal for Reform 7. Conclusion