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ID (ISN) del documento50027
Número CIS 88-1155
ISBN(s) 92-2-106151-5
Año 1987
Número de serie
Autor(es) White M.
Título Working hours - Assessing the potential for reduction
Información bibliográfica ILO Publications, International Labour Office, 1211 Genève 22, Switzerland, 1987. 103p. 81 ref. Price: CHF 20.00.
Resumen This book discusses the relevant economic theory, empirical research, public policy, and industrial relations of shorter work hours. Covered are: reduction, economics and the enterprise (income and leisure, fruits of productivity, macro-economic models and their limits, assessment of capability); arguments in favour of and against hours reduction (contribution to health and quality of life, unemployment, opposition to reduction, potential common ground between advocates and opponents); productivity improvements (distinction among improvements, excessive hours, motivation to improve efficiency, time management and utilisation, automation, productivity and negotiated change); hours, wages and collective determination (bargaining problems, covert wage adjustments, insufficiency of agreements, new forms of collective determination, individual options, innovations and the problem of scale); assessing the potential by reduction of excessive hours, progressive reduction, accelerated reduction and reduction through individual options.
Descriptores (primarios) relaciones industriales; horarios de trabajo
Descriptores (secundarios) automatización; variables individuales; incremento de la productividad; convenios colectivos; remuneración; aspectos económicos; OIT
Tipo de documento E - Libros, informes, actas
Tema(s) Ergonomia, organización del trabajo
Broad subject area(s) Aspectos generales
Navegación por categoria(s) Hours of work