Working Time Around the World: Trends in Working Hours, Laws, and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective

Contents, List of figures, List of tables, List of boxes, List of contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Legal progress towards reducing working hours, Chapter 3: Global trends in actual working hours, Chapter 4: Gender, age and working time, Chapter 5: Tertiarization, informalization and working time, Chapter 6: Working time issues in developing countries, Chapter 7: Summary and implications for policy, Bibliography, Statistical Annex

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