Shortening the working week

Edwin Whiting
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Edwin Whiting: Manchester Business School

Chapter 11 in A Guide to Unemployment Reduction Measures, 1987, pp 114-122 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Slowly, but surely, weekly hours of work have fallen over the last hundred years and continue to do so. The six-day week disappeared in the 1950s. Between 1951 and 1978 average weekly working hours of a male full-time manual worker fell from 48 to 44. Now, about half the full-time manual work-force are employed under agreements that provide a basic week of less than 40 hours.

Keywords: Public Sector; Labour Cost; Extra Cost; Static Business; Short Working (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08621-4_11

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