Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy

LaJeunesse, Robert M.

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“…A consequence of WTR and reduced consumption associated with less work is that it places the economy on a more sustainable footing. Research has identified a positive correlation between consumers' working hours and emissions, where the link is mediated through income and consumption increase (Coote et al, 2010;De Graaf 2003;Druckman et al, 2012, Hayden 1999LaJeunesse, 2009;O'Hara 1993;Pullinger, 2011Pullinger, , 2014Sanne 2002;Schor, 2005b;Siegel 2007). This serves as the context for our paper, which explores European attitudes to work time and the environment.…”

Section: Environmental Contextmentioning

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Environmental and Societal Attitudes to Working Hours in Gendered Perspective: Patterns, Preferences and Policy

Arntsen

Philp

Donegani

2018

Review of Political Economy

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This paper begins from the premise that environmental degradation is a profound and present threat and that work time reduction (WTR) -with an associated reduction in consumptionis one of a number of strategies which can be adopted to combat it. As a precursor to looking at how such policies can be supported, our research questions whether environmental attitudes are congruent with work time patterns and preferences. Our initial hypothesis was that those who care most for the environment would work less hours than those who exhibit lower levels of environmental concern, and prefer to do so. However, contra our expectations, our empirical analysis of the European Social Survey shows that those who state they care most about the environment are more likely to work longer hours, and prefer to do so. Overall, men tend to be less concerned about the environment, and work longer. Caring responsibilities, in contrast, fall disproportionately on women. We argue that this reflects traditional gender roles which are a residual from the social norm of the male breadwinner model. Given WTR as an environmental policy the task is to influence preferences and "green" human behaviour, especially among men.

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Section: Environmental Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental and Societal Attitudes to Working Hours in Gendered Perspective: Patterns, Preferences and Policy

Arntsen

Philp

Donegani

2018

Review of Political Economy

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“…(and) the shortening of the working day is its basic prerequisite ' (1968: 820). This ideathat of having more time by working less and therefore enhancing personal freedom and general well-being, 2 or simply concerns over, for instance, the impact of 'the culture of speed' (Tomlinson, 2007) or what Szollos (2009) terms 'chronic time shortage' -has been raised by numerous theorists and within actual policies (see Adam, 1995;Basso, 2003;Gorz, 1989;Hayden, 1999;LaJeunesse, 2009;Lodziak, 1995;Nowotny, 1994;Nguyen, 1992;Sen, 1999;Schor, 1991;Se`ve, 1978).…”

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“…As an issue, the reduction of working hours to increase ‘time for the self’ can, of course, be identified as a fundamental political issue within capitalism at least as far back as Marx, 1 who famously wrote that beyond the realm of necessity ‘begins … the true realm of freedom … (and) the shortening of the working day is its basic prerequisite’ (1968: 820). This idea – that of having more time by working less and therefore enhancing personal freedom and general well-being, 2 or simply concerns over, for instance, the impact of ‘the culture of speed’ (Tomlinson, 2007) or what Szollos (2009) terms ‘chronic time shortage’ – has been raised by numerous theorists and within actual policies (see Adam, 1995; Basso, 2003; Gorz, 1989; Hayden, 1999; LaJeunesse, 2009; Lodziak, 1995; Nowotny, 1994; Nguyen, 1992; Sen, 1999; Schor, 1991; Sève, 1978).…”

Section: The Politics Of Timementioning

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The politics of temporality: Autonomy, temporal spaces and resoluteness

Clancy

2013

Time & Society

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While many theorists and projects raise the notion of creating more 'free time', the implication that this will somehow be 'beneficial' is inadequate without a deeper understanding of how time is related to the individual and psychological well-being. This article offers some considerations for the raison d'etre of what can be termed a politics of time, taking as its trajectory the phenomenological understanding of time in Heidegger, and the view that restricted experiences of time in contemporary capitalist society fragment the phenomenological unity of individual temporalities. A politics of time is posed here as the necessary intervention to alleviate the subsequent inability to experience an authentic temporal orientation in such conditions. The article offers that any such temporal project must place such an understanding of temporality as its theoretical basis, and apodictically, the creation of 'temporal autonomous spaces' (TAS) as its political purpose.

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“…In light of time stress, one suspects that the one thing we certainly do not need is socialization to work longer hours (Schor, 1991 andLaJeunesse, 2009). Care must also be taken not to confuse education with increased public support of quality childcare in this age of dual-earner families.…”

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John Kenneth Galbraith

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Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy

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Environmental and Societal Attitudes to Working Hours in Gendered Perspective: Patterns, Preferences and Policy

Environmental and Societal Attitudes to Working Hours in Gendered Perspective: Patterns, Preferences and Policy

The politics of temporality: Autonomy, temporal spaces and resoluteness

John Kenneth Galbraith

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