Mesurer et contrôler. Les temps de l'organisation du travail dans les manufactures de laine de Padoue (xvie-xviie siècles)

Caracausi, Andrea

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“…The transformations of work organizations has increasingly questioned the forms and methods of measuring working time over the years (Sabel & Zeitlin, 1997), and many industrial sectors present their own characteristics in relation to the dominant methods of calculation (Caracausi, 2011). Atypical or unpredictable working hours have indeed increased in most OECD countries (Presser, 2003;OCDE, 2004) and HR managers have to try to organize schedules in order to deal with the activity, without putting too much stress on employee's worklife balance.…”

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Working in the Air: Time Management and Work Intensification Challenges for Workers in Commercial Aviation

Gillet¹,

Tremblay²

2021

JSS

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In the air transport sector, the work of flight attendants is characterised by the diversity of their temporalities and working hours. The constraints of working time have impacts on the organization of other activities and social times of the staff. This text shows the diversity of working hours and the way they are articulated to other temporalities, in a working context where the cabin crew is constantly changing, working on different temporary teams. The paper analyses the regulations, the definition of working time and the specific method of calculating this chronological time dedicated to the work activity. It shows the intensification of work experienced by the flight attendants, the fragmentation and heterogeneity of working times. The constraints of atypical working hours are analysed through timetables and the tensions experienced between professional, family and personal times. Professional activities are characterised by a diversity of working and non-working times that are strongly interconnected. Some national particularities highlighted can offer interesting solutions to several difficulties experienced elsewhere and illustrate ways of adjusting or getting around the working time issues specific to the work of the flight attendants. This paper is based on theoretical and empirical research carried out with air hostesses, stewards and pursers employed in several regular, low-cost and charter airlines in Canada and in several European countries.

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Working in the Air: Time Management and Work Intensification Challenges for Workers in Commercial Aviation

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Tremblay²

2021

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Nightless Cities: Timing the Pleasure Quarters in Early Modern Japan

Koch

2017

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This article traces the time practices relevant to Edo-period pleasure-quarter life and business in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japan, discussing two time patterns that appeared in pleasure-quarter directories at the time: more long-term, loosely circumscribed stays based around diurnal rhythms of light and darkness, as well as more short-term transactions centered on units of time measured with incense sticks—two aspects of time that were central to the trade plied in the quarters, as I show. I argue that the sex trade is significant in that it provided a rare example of a service “paid by the hour” in early modern Japan, thus crucially also calling us to (re-)consider larger issues regarding the economic value of time within the early modern Japanese world of work and especially also its relationship to modern time and labor. I demonstrate how the exigencies of a certain trade required the elaboration of a set of time units and, where necessary, a system to measure and co-ordinate them, which ultimately points towards the existence of an abstract notion of time that commanded a certain price in early modern Japan. As such, the present paper serves to qualify narratives that mainly identify the commodification of time with Japan’s industrialization, modernization, and Westernization in the late nineteenth century, as well as with the dissemination of mechanical clock-time

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Per filo e per segno

Ammannati

2020

Studi E Saggi

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The wool manufacture, along with the International trade and finance, was one of Florence’s leading sectors in the Late Middle Ages. The sixteenth century has been only touched by the historical-economical studies, perhaps because it was traditionally considered a period of decadence. More recent research has instead highlighted the need to rethink these conclusions, demonstrating how the textile sector represents a good point of observation for deepening the critical points and evaluating the prospects of the economy of the city of the Lily in the 16th century. Alongside the analysis of a case study and the critical re-elaborations of what literature offers on more general topics, the book presents a long-term view of the process of the rise and decline of the Arte della Lana in Florence, reinterpreting it in the light of new archival investigations.

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Mesurer et contrôler. Les temps de l'organisation du travail dans les manufactures de laine de Padoue (xvie-xviie siècles)

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Working in the Air: Time Management and Work Intensification Challenges for Workers in Commercial Aviation

Working in the Air: Time Management and Work Intensification Challenges for Workers in Commercial Aviation

Nightless Cities: Timing the Pleasure Quarters in Early Modern Japan

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