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010 _a 2021937562
020 _a9781788738682
_q(paperback)
020 _z9781788738705
_q(ebook)
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dAU
042 _apcc
049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 _aHD5109
_b.S773 2021
100 1 _aLewis, Kyle,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aOvertime :
_bwhy we need a shorter working week /
_cKyle Lewis, Will Stronge.
260 _c©2021
263 _a2109
264 1 _aBrooklyn :
_bVerso Books,
_c©2021
300 _a133 p:
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"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"--
655 0 _2local
_94
_aPrint books.
700 1 _aStronge, Will,
_eauthor.
942 _2lcc
_cBOOKS