Work Less

New Strategies for a Changing Workplace

Jon Peirce

$54.95 $49.11

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Dundurn Press
08 May 2024

You can't have a healthy economy with an unhealthy work force. Work Less proposes ways to reduce work hours and keep workers happier, healthier, and more productive.

Recent years have revealed just how stressed out many workers are. While the trend to longer hours has been developing for several decades, the trend's effects have been aggravated during the pandemic by the growing use of Zoom and other new technologies for meetings with clients, customers, and co-workers.

Exhausted and fed up, today's workers are starting to insist on shorter hours and greater flexibility as to where they do their work. There is growing consensus that the forty-hour week, the norm since the 1940s, has outlived its usefulness. And there is an urgent need for new work schedules that adequately reflect the far greater intensity of work today, as well as the greater family demands on a labour force made up of almost fifty percent women, who bear the brunt of domestic duties.

offers practical scheduling suggestions to employers and workers and numerous policy options for government policy-makers to improve working conditions.

By: Jon Peirce
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781459751316
ISBN 10: 1459751310
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 08 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jon Peirce has been writing about work hours and the world of work for much of the past twenty-five years. He has worked as a journalist, university professor, and union staffer, and is the author of Canadian Industrial Relations. Jon lives and writes in Gatineau, Quebec.

Reviews for Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace

Workers in advanced countries typically work shorter hours. Yet Canadian and American workers are working much longer hours than their counterparts in Europe and other leading nations. It wasn’t always this way — nor does it have to stay this way. In this fascinating, highly-readable book, Jon Pierce tells the intriguing story of the battle for shorter hours, how it was eclipsed by the battle for higher wages, and why now is finally the moment for a breakthrough that would give us all more of the precious gift of time. * LINDA McQUIAG, journalist and author of The Sport and Prey of Capitalists *