Decent working time in industrialized countries: issues, scopes and paradox

Jean-Yves Boulin, Michel Lallement and François Michon ()
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Jean-Yves Boulin: IRISSO - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Michel Lallement: LISE - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire pour la Sociologie Economique - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
François Michon: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This chapter attempts to analyse the ways in which the trends and stakes of working time have changed during recent decades (section 1.2). The utility of the concept of "decent working time" will then be examined in the light of these changes, by emphasizing its heuristic contribution, and the perspectives and implications that the term suggests in respect of working time policy (section 1.3). The limits and even the paradoxes of such a concept when applied to a heterogeneous world of national spaces can thus be stipulated. The paradoxes and contradictions of policies, in this case EU ones, will then be stressed (section 1.4). Finally, we will show how the notion of "decent working time" suggests some reconfigurations of these policies (section 1.5).

Keywords: Négociation collective; Durée travail (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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Published in Boulin Jean-Yves, Lallement Michel, Messenger Jon C., Michon François (dir.). Decent Working time. New trends, new Issues, International Labour Office, pp. 13-40, 2006

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