Working Time Around the World: Trends in Working Hours, Laws and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective - Couverture rigide

Lee, Sangheon; International Labour Office; McCann, Deirdre

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 922119311X ISBN 13 : 9789221193111

Editeur : International Labour Office, 2007

Synopsis

"Working Time Around the World: Trends in Working Hours, Laws and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective" provides a global comparative analysis of working time laws, policies, and actual working hours. It finds that, despite a century-long optimism about reduced working hours and some progress in legal measures limiting them, differences in actual working hours between industrialised and developing countries remain considerable without any clear sign of hours being reduced.This publication examines working hours in the service sector and its subsectors, such as wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants, and transport, storage and communications, as well as in the growing informal economy. It also considers how gender and age may help determine working time, and examines what influence legal standards may have on actual working hours in a number of countries. A set of policy suggestions that preserve health and safety, are family friendly, promote gender equality, enhance productivity, and facilitate workers choice and influence over their working hours are also put forward.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This publication sets out a global comparative analysis of working time laws, policies and actual working hours; and then goes on to focus on developments in selected countries, considering both broad trends in working time at a national level and the structure and dynamics underlying these trends. Issues considered include: international standards and trends towards the development of legal hours limits and regional variations; trends in average working hours and the distribution of working hours; regulatory frameworks; the diversification of the global workforce along the lines of gender and age; the impact of the expanding service sector and the growth of the 'informal economy' on patterns of working hours, and the variations within a country and across countries. The study highlights the fact that differences in actual working hours between industrialised and developing countries remains considerable and offers some policy suggestions about how this gap can begin to be closed.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: International Labour Office
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 922119311X
• ISBN 13: 9789221193111
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible