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Working time in the UK

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  • Jill Rubery

    (Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST))

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In Great Britain collective agreements have never had a great deal of significance in relation to actual working time, but in the 1980s and 1990s their significance declined even further. Meanwhile, however, real and fundamental changes have been taking place at the level where working time is actually regulated in practice, where trade unions exert direct control over working time in companies and in the workplace. The current mixture of traditional and innovative working time arrangements is giving rise to a wide range of working time patterns with a high incidence of unsocial working hours. This leads to a polarisation between the working times of men and of women, a phenomenon which is coming up against growing criticism in British society.

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  • Jill Rubery, 1998. "Working time in the UK," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 4(4), pages 657-677, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:4:y:1998:i:4:p:657-677
    DOI: 10.1177/102425899800400407
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    1. Paul Gregg, 1994. "Share and share alike," New Economy, Institute for Public Policy Research, vol. 1(1), pages 13-19, March.
    2. Jill Rubery & Mark Smith & Colette Fagan, 1997. "Explaining working-time patterns by gender: societal and sectoral effects," 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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