Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work Time, Consumption, and Ecology

by Anders Hayden

Book Overview

This is a comprehensive, up-to-date and thoughtful account of an idea for tackling both persistent unemployment and environmental degradation in industrial societies. Called work time reduction, it is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896357288
• ISBN13: 9781896357287
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Saving Mother Earth

This book adds a powerful new dimension to the array of arguments for reducing hours of work. Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet stands out for that reason from the recent stream of books advocating cutting the hours of work. Hayden shares the concerns of many writers - job creation, improved quality of life for the employed, balancing work and family, and equity between North and South and men and women - but adds a compelling environmental basis for cutting working time. It is among the very best books on the subject of working time.The stress that consumption in the North puts on the Earth's ecology is the main concern of the book but make no mistake: This book is about cutting the hours that we work.