On the topic of future work . . . below is the table of contents for a
book on trends and policy with regard to working time, forthcoming from
Routledge on Sept. 20, 2000. Note chapter 12 is by a long time
contributer to futurework, whose name I won't mention out of
sheer modesty. Several of the threads of argument in that chapter were
first tried out on this list in the winter of 1998-99.
Although the book isn't out quite yet, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt for
people to call their nearby university library to ask them to acquire it.
Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives
Lonnie Golden and Deborah M. Figart, Editors. London: Routledge, 2000.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Lonnie Golden and Deborah M. Figart, "Introduction and
Overview: Understanding Working Time Around the World"
Part I. Current Trends and Patterns in Work Hours: What is the Evidence?
2. Barry Bluestone and Stephen Rose, "Work Time and the Macroeconomy"
3. Steffen Lehndorff, "Working Time Reduction in the European Union: A
Diversity of Trends and Approaches"
4. Robert Drago, Robert Caplan, David Costanza, Tanya Brubaker, Darnell
Cloud, Naomi Harris, Russell Kashian, and T. Lynn Riggs, "The Longest
Day: Working Time for Teachers"
5. Juliet B. Schor, "Civic Engagement and Working Hours: Do Americans
Really Have More Free Time and Are Some Downshifting to Get It?"
Part II. Empirical and Theoretical Foundations: Understanding Overwork
and Underemployment
6. Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson, "Who Are the Overworked
Americans?"
7. Linda A. Bell, "The Incentive to Work Hard: Differences in Black and
White Workers Hours and Preferences"
8. David George, "Driven to Spend: Longer Work Hours as a Byproduct of
Market Forces"
9. Paul Burkett, "Natural, Social, and Political Limits to Work
Time: The Contemporary Relevance of Marx's Analysis"
10. Robert E. Prasch, "Revising the Labor Supply Curve: Implications for
Work Time and Minimum Wage Legislation"
PART III. Innovations in Working Time and Public Policy
11. Gerhard Bosch, "Working Time Reductions, Employment Consequences and
Lessons from Implementation in Europe: Defusing a Quasi-Religious
Controversy"
12. Tom Walker, "The Lump of Labor' Case Against Worksharing: Populist
Fallacy or Marginalist Throwback?"
13. Lonnie Golden, "Better Timing: Work Schedule Flexibility Among US
Workers and Policy Directions"
14. Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart, "The Social Implications of
European Work Time Policies: Promoting Gender Equity?"
15. Laura Leete, "History and Housework: Implications for Work Hours and
Family Policies in Market Economies"
Temps (aka Tom) Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
