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

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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)

  • Michel Lallement

    (LISE - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire pour la Sociologie Economique - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - HESAM - HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université - 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)

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).

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  • Jean-Yves Boulin & Michel Lallement & François Michon, 2006. "Decent working time in industrialized countries: issues, scopes and paradox," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00311150, HAL.
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    1. François Michon, 1997. "Working time: new issues, new norms, new measures. Introduction," Brussels Economic Review, in: Gerhard Bosch & Danièle Meulders & François Michon (ed.),Le temps de travail, nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles normes, nouvelles mesures - Working time :new issues, new norms, new measures, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
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    Négociation collective; Durée travail;

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