Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781788738682)

Work isn't working

As precarity and low pay become further embedded in the job market, at a time when work-related stress and exhaustion are endemic, it is clear that a new, radical approach to employment is required.

Many industries already face existential threats from automation, climate breakdown, a crisis of care, and an ageing population. In Overtime, Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge identify a powerful and practicable response to these worrying trends: the shorter working week.

This urgent and timely book shows what a shorter working week means in the context of capitalist economies and delves into the history of this idea as well as its political implications. Drawing on a range of political and economic thinkers, Lewis and Stronge argue that a shorter working week could build a more just and equitable society, one based on collective freedom and human potential, providing scope for the many to achieve a happier, more fulfilling life.

Author: Will Stronge, Kyle Lewis
ISBN-10: 1788738683
ISBN-13: 9781788738682
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.30w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/28/2021
Booklist 08/01/2021 pg. 9