why we need a shorter working week Lewis, Kyle creator author. Stronge, Will author. text Print books. nyu ©2021 2021 monographic eng

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133 p: "Working isn't working. As precarity and low-pay spread across the labour market, and work-related stress and exhaustion become increasingly endemic, it's clear that a new, radical approach is required. Many industries already face existential threats from automation, climate breakdown, a crisis of care and demographic ageing. In this short book, Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge identify a powerful and practical response to these worrying trends: the shorter working week. This urgent and timely book shows what a shorter working week means in the context of capitalist economies, as well as the history of this idea and its political implications. Drawing on a range of political and economic thinkers, Lewis and Stronge argue that a shorter working week could build a more just and equal society, one based on collective freedom and human potential"-- Kyle Lewis, Will Stronge. HD5109 .S773 2021 9781788738682 2021937562 DLC 210420 20220116131349.0 22004971 eng