Decent working time : new trends, new issues / edited by Jean-Yves Boulin ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. New stakes and policies. 1. Decent working time in industrialized countries : issues, scopes and paradoxes / Jean-Yves Boulin, Michel Lallement and François Michon -- 2. Working time and the standard employment relationship / Gerhard Bosch -- 3. Working time capability : towards realizing individual choice / Sangheon Lee and Deirdre McCann -- 4. Decent working time in a life-course perspective / Dominique Anxo, Jean Yves Boulin and Colette Fagan -- 5. Time, work and pay : understanding the new relationships / Jill Rubery, Kevin Ward and Damian Grimshaw -- part 2. Individual choices and collective options. 6. Labour supply preference and job mobility of Dutch employees / Didier Fourarge and Christine Baaijens -- 7. The French 35-hour week : a decent working time pattern: : lessons from case studies / Pascal Charpentier, ... [and others] -- 8. Overemployment in the United States : which workers are willing to reduce their work-hours and income? / Lonnie Golden -- 9. Women's preferences or delineated policies? : the development of part-time work in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom / Mara Yekes and Jelle Visser -- part 3. Flexibilities and conditions of work. 10. The working conditions of blue-collar and white-collar workers in France compared : a question of time / Nicole Gadrey, Florence Jany-Catrice and Martine Pernod-Lemattre -- 11. Managers and working time in Finland / Jouko Nätti, Timo Anttila and Mia Väisänen -- 12. Can norms survive market pressures? : the practical effectiveness of new forms of working time regulation in a changing German economy / Thomas Haipeter -- part 4. Quality, efficiency and inequalities. 13. Time management in a service economy : the case of Japan / Thierry Ribault -- 14. Two occupational groups facing the challenge of temporal availability : hospital nurses and bank managerial staff in France, Belgium and Spain / Paul Bouffartique and Jacques Bouteiller --15. Who is working at weekends? : determinants of regular weekend work in Canada / Isik U. Zeytinoglu and Gordon B. Cooke -- part 5. Conclusion. 16. Towards decent working time / Jon C. Messenger.ger.

Includes selected papers from the 9th International Symposium on Working Time, Paris (2004), looking at the increasing use of results-based employment relationships for managers and professionals, and the increasing fragmentation of time to more closely tailor staffing needs to customer requirements (e.g., short-hours, part-time work). Moreover, as operating/opening hours rapidly expand toward a 24-hour and 7-day economy, the book considers how this has resulted in a growing diversification, decentralization, and individualization of working hours, as well as an increasing tension between enterprises' business requirements and workers' needs and preferences regarding their hours. It addresses issues such as increasing employment insecurity and instability, time-related social inequalities, particularly in relation to gender, workers' ability to balance their paid work with their personal lives, and the synchronization of working hours with social times, such as community activities. In addition, the book offers suggestions on how policy-makers, academics, and the social partners can together help further develop effective policies for advancing "decent working time."