Work Time

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Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Cynthia Negrey examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic change and the gender division of labor to ask: what are the historical, cultural, public policy, and business sources of current work-time practices? Topics addressed include work-time reduction in the US culminating in the 40-hour statute of 1938, recent trends in annual and weekly hours, overtime, part-time work, temporary employment, work-family integration, and international comparisons. She focuses on the US in a global context and explores how a new political economy of work time is taking shape. This book brings together existing knowledge from sociology, anthropology, history, labor economics, and family studies to answer its central question and will change the way upper-level students think about the time we devote to work.

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Cynthia L. Negrey

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Business & Management Business & Society Organizational & Industrial Psychology Psychologie Psychologie i. d. Arbeitswelt Psychology Sociology Sociology of Organizations & Work Soziologie Soziologie am Arbeitsplatz Wirtschaft u. Gesellschaft Wirtschaft u. Management

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"Cynthia Negrey has written an astute, thorough review of what wehave learned about the issue of work time since the issue was putback on the table by Juliet Schor's The Overworked American.By placing the issue in historical context, and by providing acomparative framework for thinking about the American experience,her book succeeds in its goal of getting readers to think about howwork time might be organized differently, in ways more compatiblewith the needs of a changing workforce." Peter Meiksins, Cleveland State University "Engaging and accessible, Work Time illustrates thehistorical development of the concept of time, then deftly weavestogether the broad literature around the defining work-timeinnovations of our era, namely the transition to part-time,temporary, and other non-permanent forms of employment. Byintegrating the literature on today's work-time configurations andproviding an international comparison of social policies aimed atsupporting work-life balance, Negrey helps readers make sense ofone of the most complex and significant issues of our times. WorkTime is essential reading for students and a valuable resource forresearchers, educators, and practitioners who are interested inwork, gender, and the intersection of the two." Anne Zacharias-Walsh, Solidarity Ink "an excellent example of good sociological analysis whichilluminates the underlying social characteristics of dominantinstitutions." Contemporary Sociology
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