1st Edition
Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy The Social Effort Bargain
By Robert LaJeunesse
Copyright 2009
312 Pages
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Routledge
312 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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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... Read more
CHAPTER 1. THE ORIGINS OF THE WORK AND GROWTH FETISH; CHAPTER 2. RETHINKING THE WORK FETISH AND THE GROWTH CONSENSUS; CHAPTER 3. WORK TIME REGULATION AS A MACROECONOMIC POLICY TOOL; CHAPTER 4. THE ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF WORK TIME REGULATION; CHAPTER 5. THE EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF WORK TIME REDUCTION; CHAPTER 6. A PROPOSAL FOR REFORM ; CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION
Biography
Robert LaJeunesse is a Senior Economist with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, DC
