Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week
- ISBN-10
- 1788738683
- ISBN-13
- 9781788738682
- Series
- Overtime
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-19
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Authors
- Will Stronge, Kyle Lewis
Description
"Working isn't working. As precarity and low-pay spread across the labour market, and work-related stress and exhaustion become increasingly endemic, it's clear that a new, radical approach is required. Many industries already face existential threats from automation, climate breakdown, a crisis of care and demographic ageing. In this short book, Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge identify a powerful and practical response to these worrying trends: the shorter working week. This urgent and timely book shows what a shorter working week means in the context of capitalist economies, as well as the history of this idea and its political implications. Drawing on a range of political and economic thinkers, Lewis and Stronge argue that a shorter working week could build a more just and equal society, one based on collective freedom and human potential"--
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- 2019-09-03
- 432 pages
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- 2012-09
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