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Working Time and Workers' Preferences in Industrialized Countries
Finding the Balance
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
The gradual reduction in weekly working hours in the first half of the last century, which culminated in the widespread adoption of the 'standard' working week by the 1960s, was grounded in a concern for health and safety and for the preservation of time outside of paid labour. Over the last few...
Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
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Working Time Around the World
Trends in Working Hours, Laws, and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective
Published May 30th 2007 by Routledge