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"A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete - cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on.
In this ground-breaking book, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives - how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century - from running water to white goods to smart homes - they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals.
Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Hester and Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities."

"Though there are still just twenty-four hours in a day, society's idea of who should be doing what and when has shifted. Time, the ultimate scarce resource, has become an increasingly contested battle zone in American life, with work, family, and personal obligations pulling individuals in conflicting directions. In Fighting for Time, editors Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne Kalleberg bring together a team of distinguished sociologists and management analysts to examine the social construction of time and its importance in American culture. Fighting for Time opens with an exploration of changes in time spent at work--both when people are on the job and the number of hours they spend there--and the consequences of those changes for individuals and families. Contributors Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson find that the relative constancy of the average workweek in America over the last thirty years hides the fact that blue-collar workers are putting in fewer hours while more educated white-collar workers are putting in more. Rudy Fenwick and Mark Tausig look at the effect of nonstandard schedules on workers' health and family life. They find that working unconventional hours can increase family stress, but that control over one's work schedule improves family, social, and health outcomes for workers. The book then turns to an examination of how time influences the organization and control of work. The British insurance company studied by David Collinson and Margaret Collinson is an example of a culture where employees are judged on the number of hours they work rather than on their productivity. There, managers are under intense pressure not to take legally guaranteed parental leave, and clocks are banned from the office walls so that employees will work without regard to the time. In the book's final section, the contributors examine how time can have different meanings for men and women. Cynthia Fuchs Epstein points out that professional women and stay-at-home fathers face social disapproval for spending too much time on activities that do not conform to socially prescribed gender roles--men are mocked by coworkers for taking paternity leave, while working mothers are chastised for leaving their children to the care of others. Fighting for Time challenges assumptions about the relationship between time and work, revealing that time is a fluid concept that derives its importance from cultural attitudes, social psychological processes, and the exercise of power. Its insight will be of interest to sociologists, economists, social psychologists, business leaders, and anyone interested in the work-life balance."

"Quel avenir pour le droit du travail dans une économie et une société en profonde mutation ? En 1999, Alain Supiot avait présidé à la rédaction d'un rapport commandité par la Commission européenne sur "les transformations du travail et le devenir du droit du travail en Europe ". A partir d'une analyse comparative des évolutions sociologique, économique, juridique et managériale de l'organisation du travail dans les pays-membres, ce rapport a avancé quelques propositions fortes pour le renouveau de ce qu'on appelait alors le modèle social européen. Traduit en plusieurs langues, c'est devenu au fil des années un "classique", qui a contribué au renouvellement des débats sur la crise de l'emploi, et auquel se réfèrent encore des responsables et des analystes de tous bords. Alain Supiot nous propose une lecture actualisée de ce rapport, qui trace les voies d'une véritable réforme du droit du travail. Depuis le tournant du siècle, le passage à l'euro, l'élargissement de l'Union européenne, la financiarisation de l'économie, la crise de 2008... ont conduit à l'abandon de toute ambition sociale et à la réduction du droit du travail à un facteur d'ajustement aux contraintes de la globalisation. A rebours de ce renoncement, ce livre tient compte de la place centrale que le travail - dans la diversité et l'actualité de ses formes - occupe dans l'institution de l'homme et de la société, et aide à penser un projet politique porteur de plus de justice sociale."