Contesting Time: International Comparisons of Employee Control of Working Time

The authors hypothesize that three broad factors affect the degree of workers' control over the timing and the total hours of their work: the institutional and regulatory environment within the country, labor market conditions, and management and labor union strategies. Drawing from their inter...

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Published inIndustrial & labor relations review Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 331 - 349
Main Authors Berg, Peter, Appelbaum, Eileen, Tom Bailey, Kalleberg, Arne L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University 01.04.2004
SAGE Publications
ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
SeriesIndustrial and Labor Relations Review
Subjects
Australia
Collective bargaining
Control
Crosscultural Analysis
Employees
Employment
Germany
Industrial relations
Italy
Japan
Labor Market
Labor markets
Labor Policy
Labor Relations
Labor time
Labor unions
Labour market
Labour relations
Manycountries
Market conditions
Netherlands
Policy making
Public sector
Regulation
Studies
Sweden
U.S.A
Work hours
Work schedules
Work weeks
Worker Control
Working conditions
Working Hours
Working time
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Summary:The authors hypothesize that three broad factors affect the degree of workers' control over the timing and the total hours of their work: the institutional and regulatory environment within the country, labor market conditions, and management and labor union strategies. Drawing from their interviews in 2000 with managers, public sector policy-makers and administrators, and union leaders, as well as from previous literature, they illustrate how these factors actually affected working time and employee control over working time in the United States, Australia, Japan, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Their comparative analysis shows that in some countries, employers and labor unions negotiated contracts that increased employee control over working time and provided employers with greater flexibility; in others, employee control over working time remained unevenly distributed across the occupational spectrum.
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ISSN:0019-7939
2162-271X
DOI:10.1177/001979390405700301