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Work Timeis a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Cynthia Negrey examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic change and the gender division of labor to ask: what are the historical, cultural, public policy, and business sources of current work-time practices? Topics addressed include work-time reduction in the US culminating in the 40-hour statute of 1938, recent trends in annual and weekly hours, overtime, part-time work, temporary employment, work-family integration, and international comparisons. She focuses on the US in a global context and explores how a new political economy of work time is taking shape. This book brings together existing knowledge from sociology, anthropology, history, labor economics, and family studies to answer its central question and will change the way upper-level students think about the time we devote to work.

Work Time is a sociological overview of the complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. The author examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic change and the gender division of labor, to ask: what are the historical, cultural, public policy, and business sources of current work-time practices? The book focuses on the US in a global context and explores how a new political economy of work time is taking shape. -- Publisher description.

Reports on a case study of 16 married women working in the machine-made jewelry production sector of the Noida Export Processing Zone near Delhi, India, that was part of a larger study conducted in 1996-97. Data were obtained from interviews focused on the impact of waged work on income control & the sharing of domestic work. Three of the women reported that the men control income & never share in household chores; three indicated that their spouses control income but share in household chores; two said they control income but their husbands never help with chores; & eight reported joint control of income & sharing chores. It is concluded that women's wage employment leads to changes in traditional gender regimes & the ability of women to negotiate in order to strike a "better bargain." The study contradicts previous research indicating little sharing of household work by men upon entry of women into waged work & suggests that waged work opens new spaces of empowerment for women. 1 Table. J. Lindroth

Reports on a case study of 16 married women working in the machine-made jewelry production sector of the Noida Export Processing Zone near Delhi, India, that was part of a larger study conducted in 1996-97. Data were obtained from interviews focused on the impact of waged work on income control & the sharing of domestic work. Three of the women reported that the men control income & never share in household chores; three indicated that their spouses control income but share in household chores; two said they control income but their husbands never help with chores; & eight reported joint control of income & sharing chores. It is concluded that women's wage employment leads to changes in traditional gender regimes & the ability of women to negotiate in order to strike a "better bargain." The study contradicts previous research indicating little sharing of household work by men upon entry of women into waged work & suggests that waged work opens new spaces of empowerment for women. 1 Table. J. Lindroth

For several decades workers' participation in management was a persistent demand of the left. In the neoliberal era it became, in a twisted way, a reality for some workers. Team organization of production, reduction of supervisory staffing, and a constant drive for productivity improvement became the norm, requiring broader managerial involvement by workers in their activities. Workers' control of production remains on the radical agenda, but with broader implications. Workers' control of production implies dramatic changes in the relationship between capital and labor, and with them development of alternative forms of production and distribution. JEL classification: J54, B51, L23