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Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time (Paperback)
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Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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John Maynard Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would
only work 15 hours a week. In the mid-1960s, Jean Fourastie 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 employees have hardly fallen in the advanced capitalist
countries in the last three decades, while in a number of countries
they have actually increased since the 1980s. This book takes the
persistence of long work hours as starting point to investigate the
relationship between capitalism and work time. It does so by
discussing major theoretical schools and their explanations for the
length and distribution of work hours, as well as tracing major
changes in production and reproduction systems, and analyzing their
consequences for work hours. Furthermore, this volume explores the
struggle for shorter work hours, starting from the introduction of
the ten-hour work day in the nineteenth century to the introduction
of the 35-hour week in France and Germany at the end of the
twentieth century. However, the book also shows how neoliberalism
has eroded collective work time regulations and resulted in an
increase and polarization of work hours since the 1980s. Finally,
the book argues that shorter work hours not only means more free
time for workers, but also reduces inequality and improves human
and ecological sustainability.
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