Working Time

Chapter 1 Introduction and overview, Deborah M. Figart, Lonnie Golden; Part 1 Current trends and patterns in work hours; Chapter 2 The enigma of working time trends, Barry Bluestone, Stephen Rose; Chapter 3 Working time reduction in the European Union, Steffen Lehndorff; Chapter 4 The longest day, Robert Drago, Robert Caplan, David Costanza, Tanya Brubaker, Darnell Cloud, Naomi Harris, Russell Kashian, T. Lynn Riggs; Chapter 5 Working hours and time pressure, Juliet B. Schor; Part 2 Empirical and theoretical foundations; Chapter 6 Who are the overworked Americans?, Jerry A. Jacobs, Kathleen Gerson; Chapter 7 The incentive to work hard, Linda A. Bell; Chapter 8 Driven to spend, David George; Chapter 9 Natural, social, and political limits to work time, Paul Burkett; Chapter 10 Revising the labor supply curve, Robert E. Prasch; Part 3 Innovations in working time and public policy; Chapter 11 Working time reductions, employment consequences and lessons from Europe, Gerhard Bosch; Chapter 12 The lump-of-labor case against work-sharing, Tom Walker; Chapter 13 Better timing?, Lonnie Golden; Chapter 14 The social implications of European work time policies, Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart; Chapter 15 History and housework, Laura Leete;