Negotiating Shorter Working Hours

Study of trends and effects of reduced hours of work in the UK - reviews changes in hours of work and overtime in the 1970s and early 1980s, and collective agreements establishing shorter working hours; examines part time employment, Job Sharing, compressed working weeks, and trade union attitudes and management attitudes towards overtime; discusses economic factors influencing decision making on shift work; includes legal aspects, cost benefit analysis of shift working and forecasts of levels of working hours in the 1990s. Graphs, references.