Organizations and Working Time Standards
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Organizations and Working Time Standards

A Comparison of Negotiations in Europe

Jens Thoemmes

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Organizations and Working Time Standards

A Comparison of Negotiations in Europe

Jens Thoemmes

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About This Book

Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working norms are fractured and fragmented by country. This book brings an entirely new perspective to our understanding of changes in working time. In both the UK and the US, effective legal or collectively-bargained regulation of working time has been limited over the last 20 years, to the extent that its disappearance is seen as almost unproblematic. Here author Jens Thoemmes sheds light on this transition and its economic implications with a fully evidenced sociological account, based particularly on original research into cases of working time standards in France and Germany.

This book addresses the whole process of working time regulation over the last twenty years, evaluating the activities of trade unions, employers, and the State. While theories of industrial relations have already addressed the issue of markets in the context of collective bargaining, this book draws connections between time and markets, places these transitions in their historical contexts, and illustrates the importance of this movement crossing borders and cultures.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781135077648
Edition
1
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Labour Economics
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Figures and Tables
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1. Introduction: The Emergence of Variable Time Standards
  10. 2. Market Time: The Need to Widen the Scope of Inquiry on Work
  11. 3. Market Time in France
  12. 4. Market Time in Germany: The Case of the Four-Day Week at Volkswagen
  13. 5. General Conclusions
  14. Appendices: Quantitative Analysis of Company Agreements
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
Citation styles for Organizations and Working Time Standards

APA 6 Citation

Thoemmes, J. (2013). Organizations and Working Time Standards (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1676365/organizations-and-working-time-standards-a-comparison-of-negotiations-in-europe-pdf (Original work published 2013)

Chicago Citation

Thoemmes, Jens. (2013) 2013. Organizations and Working Time Standards. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1676365/organizations-and-working-time-standards-a-comparison-of-negotiations-in-europe-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Thoemmes, J. (2013) Organizations and Working Time Standards. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1676365/organizations-and-working-time-standards-a-comparison-of-negotiations-in-europe-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Thoemmes, Jens. Organizations and Working Time Standards. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2013. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.