Overtime : why we need a shorter working week / Kyle Lewis, Will Stronge.

By:

Lewis, Kyle [author.]

Contributor(s):

Stronge, Will [author.]

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781788738682

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Print books.

LOC classification:

HD5109 .S773 2021

Summary: "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"--

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Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Alfaisal University On Shelf	Alfaisal University On Shelf	HD5109 .S773 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	AU00000000017810

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"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"--