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1 online resource (196 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies |
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Routledge advances in management and business studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: The Emergence of Variable Time Standards; 1.1 Aim and Outline of the Book: Analysis of the Negotiated Recomposition of Work Time Norms; 1.2 Time and Work: Return to the Middle Ages, Back to the Future?; 1.2.1 Coordination of Activities by Merchants' Time; 1.2.2 Financial Innovations and New Ethics for Limiting Economic Risks; 1.2.3 A Change in the Conception of Time |
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1.3 The Debate About Temporal Flexibility Starting with Working-Time Reduction and Variability1.3.1 The Problem of Working Time in the 19th Century: Excessive Working Hours and Extreme Fluctuations; 1.3.2 Stabilization of Working Time for Restraining the Stranglehold of Industrial Time over the Worker; 1.3.3 From Stability to Variability: Change of Time-Standards; 1.3.4 Variability of Industrial Time: The Example of an Original Research Study; 1.3.5 Illusion of the Stability of Temporal Standards; 1.3.6 Variable Hours: Chosen Temporalities and Desynchronisation of Individuals at Work |
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1.3.7 Promoting Chosen Temporalities for Economic and Social Reasons1.3.8 Difficulties and Resistance to the Implementation of Variable Hours; 1.3.9 Flextime: A Change of Time Culture?; 1.3.10 Shifting of the Focus of the Debate after Flextime; 1.4 The Recent Debate in Germany: Flexibility or Time for Yourself?; 1.4.1 Report about Reduction of Working Hours during the 1980s; 1.4.2 Renewal of Interest for Chosen Temporalities During the 1990s; 1.4.3 A Mixed Outcome: Pressure of Markets and Individualisation of Temporalities; 2. Market Time: The Need to Widen the Scope of Inquiry on Work |
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2.1 Sociological Approach to Temporalities: The Founders2.1.1 Case Analysis of Industrial Work by Max Weber; 2.1.2 Time Is Not Just Money but a Multiplicity of Social Temporalities; 2.2 French Sociology of Work-A Critical Vision of Standardised Industrial Time; 2.2.1 First Critical Review: The Multiplicity of Social Temporalities; 2.2.2 Second Critical Review: The "Destructuring" Nature of Industrial Work; 2.2.3 Third Critical Review: The Emergence of Leisure; 2.2.4 Fourth Critical Review: The Multiple Facets of Industrial Activities |
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2.3 Productivity, Employment, and the Social Question Posing new Challenges to the Noton of Time2.3.1 Productivity and Questions about its Measurement; 2.3.2 Employment as a New Overall Equivalent?; 2.3.3 Insecurity and Access of Youth to Work: Non-Negotiable Social Temporalities?; 2.4 The Market as a Principle of Activity Coordination; 2.4.1 Market and Bargaining; 2.4.2 The Customer as an Actor in the Negotiation Process; 2.4.3 The Closing of Collective Bargaining to New Players; 2.4.4 The Mythology of Markets; 2.4.5 Financial Markets: Risk Control and Time Volatility |
| Summary |
Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working norms are fractured and fragmented by country. This book brings an entirely new perspective to our understanding of changes in working time. In both the UK and the US, effective legal or collectively-bargained regulation of working time has been limited over the last 20 years, to the extent that its d |
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2.4.6 Illusion or Need for Insurance-The Core Issue of Bargaining? |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135077655 |
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1135077657 |
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