Shorter Hours, Shorter Weeks: Spreading the Work to Reduce UnemploymentMonograph examining potential effects of reduced hours of work and shorter workweeks on unemployment in the USA - discusses long term and short term trends regarding arrangement of working time, worklife expectancy, woman workers, etc., considers trade union attitudes (collective bargaining results) and employees attitudes toward increasing leisure, Job Sharing and other social implications and economic implications, and compares experience in the us and Western Europe. Graphs, references and statistical tables. |
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Setting the Stage | 1 |
Arguments Attitudes | 28 |
European and American Initiatives | 60 |
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