Congratulations Tom, I talk to Routledge occasionally. I'll ask them to send me a copy. REH Timework Web wrote: > 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
