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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 September 8th 2004 by Routledge