Time’s Up! Shorter Hours, Public Policy, and Time Flexibility as an Antidote to Youth Unemployment
Time’s Up! Shorter Hours, Public Policy, and Time Flexibility as an Antidote to Youth Unemployment
This chapter explores the relationship between hours of work and unemployment. When it comes to time spent working in the United States at present, two problems immediately come to light. First, an asymmetrical distribution of working time persists, with some people overworked and others underemployed. Second, hours are increasingly unstable; precarious on-call work scheduling and gig economy–style employment relationships are the canaries in the coal mine of a labor market that produces fewer and fewer stable jobs. It is possible that some kind of shorter hours movement, especially one that places an emphasis on young workers, has the potential to address these problems. Some policies and processes are already in place to transition into a shorter hours economy right now even if those possibilities are mediated by an anti-worker political administration.
Keywords: working hours, unemployment, overtime, on-call scheduling, gig economy, shorter hours movement, young worker, work sharing, shorter hours economy
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