| Description |
xi, 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Growing, Growing, Gone? -- Towards a Green Left -- Overconsumption, Efficiency, and Sufficiency -- Sustainable Growth to the Rescue? -- The Eco-Efficiency "Revolution" and an Ecological Tax Reform -- The Limits to Efficiency -- Towards a Sufficiency Revolution -- Working Less, Consuming Less, and Living More: The Ecological Promise of Work-Time Reduction -- An Ecologically Sound Response to the Employment Crisis -- An Alternative Vision of Progress -- Time to Think, Time to Act -- New Opportunities for "Simple Living" and Subverting Consumerism -- Perverted By Productivism? Work-Time Reduction and an Expansionary Vision -- Work-Time Reduction as a Stimulus to Economic Growth? -- More Time to Consume? -- Green Suspicion of Shorter Work Hours -- It Isn't Easy Being Green -- Avoiding the Pitfalls of Productivism -- Strengthening the Ecological Merits of Work-Time Reduction -- Finding Common Ground -- Why It's So Hard to Work Less -- Business and the Bottom Line -- Working to Survive or Working for More Toys? -- Labour Unions as a Force for Change -- Government Leadership in a Time of Neo-Liberalism -- A Culture Consumed by Growth -- The Overwork Ethic -- Fear of Freedom? -- The Commodification and Trivialization of Leisure -- "Nice Idea, but It Can't Be Done" -- Work-Time Policy and Practice, North and South -- Focus on the Workweek, or the Work Life? -- A Tool Box for Reducing and Redistributing Work Time -- Individual or Collective Choice? Voluntary or Legislative Action? -- Canadian Policy and Practice -- Work Time in the South. |
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Hours of labor.
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Early retirement.
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Parental leave.
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Environmental degradation.
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Consumption (Economics)
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| ISBN |
1856498174 (hb) |
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9781856498173 (hb) |
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1856498182 (pbk.) |
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9781856498180 (pbk.) |
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1864031115 (Pluto Press) |
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9781864031119 (Pluto Press) |
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1896357288 (Canada) |
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9781896357287 (Canada) |
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