Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy: The Social Effort Bargain (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2009
Series: Book 97 of 375 - Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Hardcover, xv + 293 pages, NOT ex-library. External cosmetic wear: glued tip of the lower outer corner of the front board. Interior is fine, clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This study advances a heterodox economic argument for reducing working hours as a means of achieving full employment, moving beyond the traditional 20th-century case for shorter work weeks. The author subjects conventional full employment policies to critical scrutiny, examining why demand-side interventions and growth-oriented strategies have failed to eliminate involuntary unemployment in developed economies. Central to the analysis is the concept of the social effort bargain, a framework for understanding how the distribution of work time reflects broader power relations and institutional arrangements within labour markets. The book traces the historical trajectory of work time reduction movements and investigates why progress toward shorter hours stalled in most industrialised nations after the mid-twentieth century. It engages with efficiency wage theory, examining the relationship between working hours, productivity and worker well-being. The argument challenges the assumption that economic growth alone can resolve unemployment, proposing instead that regulated reductions in work time offer a more sustainable path to full employment and price stability. The analysis remains pertinent to contemporary policy debates surrounding the four-day work week, work-life balance and the future of employment in an era of automation and environmental constraints. As discussions intensify about redistributing available work more equitably and questioning growth-dependent economic models, this text provides theoretical grounding for understanding work time as a central variable in employment policy rather than a peripheral concern.…
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- Title
- Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy: The Social Effort Bargain (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
- Author
- Robert LaJeunesse
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415460573
- ISBN 13
- 9780415460576
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 97 of 375: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Robert LaJeunesse looks beyond the 20th century arguments for shortening the work week. He writes a careful, convincing critique of traditional full employment policies in advocacy of an alternative macroeconomic paradigm. With an emphasis on greater socioeconomic participation, the author proposes a policy of work time regulation that is not only appropriate for a 21st century post-industrial economy, but speaks to concerns about balancing work and family, environmental sustainability, stabilizing incomes and prices, and social and economic well being.
Through its unique conceptualization of employment relations as a social effort bargain, this book proposes that governments can achieve egalitarian and sustainable macroeconomic objectives by regulating work hours. Equally important to achieving sustainable full employment and price stability, work time regulation offers the capability for citizens living in an age of abundance to define themselves as something other than paid employees. Work time reform represents a first step in a process of enlightenment in which workers will create an identity through the whole of their relationships at work, home, community, and at play. There is certainly a role for government in fostering the pursuit of "loftier ideals" subsequent to a redistribution of work time, but the first precondition for enhanced human development is greater socioeconomic participation, which means more paid work for some and less for others.
In addition to students and researchers in economics, sociology, and political science, this book will be of interest to policy makers, policy analysts, labour unionists, environmentalists, and other social reformers.
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About the Author
Robert LaJeunesse is a Senior Economist with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, DC
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