Overtime : why we need a shorter working week / Kyle Lewis, Will Stronge.
Publisher: Brooklyn : Verso Books, ©2021Description: 133 pContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781788738682
- HD5109 .S773 2021
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| Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Alfaisal University On Shelf | Alfaisal University On Shelf | HD5109 .S773 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | AU00000000017810 |
"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"--

