This book is written in support of proposals to reduce work time in order to improve employment opportunities. It is written in defense of leisure, both as a component of living standards and as a stimulus to real and meaningful use of consumer products. Shorter work hours promise a better life to t
Negotiating Shorter Working Hours
โ Scribed by Alastair Evans, Stephen Palmer (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 251
- Series
- Industrial Relations in Practice
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Working Time in Context....Pages 3-46
Alternative Patterns of Working Hours....Pages 47-66
Overtime Working....Pages 67-91
Introducing a Shorter Week for Dayworkers....Pages 92-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-138
Shiftwork โ Making the Decision....Pages 139-161
The Costs of Shiftwork....Pages 162-180
Shift Systems, Choice and Shorter Working Time....Pages 181-209
Postscript: Future Trends in Working Hours....Pages 210-213
Back Matter....Pages 214-240
โฆ Subjects
Labor Economics
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
539 pages ; 17 cm
<p>Gary Provost practices what he preaches in Make Your Words Work. He helps you learn to write well by, among other things, writing well himself. His warm, witty, entertaining instruction teams with solid examples as well as exercises. Get the good word now. This is the writing course to help you m
296 pages ; 23 cm
Negotiation is an essential part of doing business, but to be an effective negotiator one must master a wide variety of skills such as listening, self-awareness, conflict resolution, assertiveness, and more. So it stands to reason that in order to teach such a complicated subject, managers and train