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Have you ever wondered why you're so busy, where your time goes, or how much your time is really worth? This book will radically alter your understanding of the nature and value of time. Authored by leading experts in social, economic and environmental sciences, it explains how moving towards shorter, more flexible hours of work could help tackle urgent problems that beset our daily lives - from overwork, unemployment and low well-being, to entrenched inequalities, needless high-carbon consumption and the lack of time to live sustainably.
Time On Our Side challenges conventional wisdom about what makes a `successful' economy. It shows us how, through using and valuing time differently, we can reclaim the time to care for each other, follow our dreams and enjoy each moment.
If we want to have a shot at halting the crisis, we need to restore the balance. We need to change how we see nature and our place in it, shifting from a philosophy of domination and extraction to one that's rooted in reciprocity and regeneration. We need to evolve beyond the dogmas of capitalism to a new system that is fit for the twenty-first century. But what does such a society look like? What about jobs? What about health? What about progress?
This book tackles these questions and traces a clear pathway to a post-capitalist economy. An economy that's more just, more caring, and more fun. An economy that enables human flourishing while reversing ecological breakdown. An economy that will not only lift us out of our current crisis, but restore our sense of connection to a world that's brimming with life. By taking less, we can become more.
Ouvrir grand les frontières, une semaine de travail de quinze heures, le revenu de base universel... Des idées naïves et dépassées ou bien la force de l'utopie renouvelée? Résolument anti-décliniste, Utopies réalistes tombe à pic et nous explique comment construire un monde idéal aujourd'hui et ne pas désespérer! D'une ville canadienne qui a totalement éradiqué la pauvreté à l'histoire d'un revenu de base pour des millions d'Américains sous Richard Nixon, Rutger Bregman nous emmène dans un voyage à travers l'histoire, et, au-delà des divisions traditionnelles gauche-droite, il défend des idées qui s'imposent par la force même de l'exemple et le sérieux de la démarche historique. Tout progrès de la civilisation – des débuts de la démocratie à la fin de l'esclavage – fut d'abord considéré comme un fantasme de doux rêveurs.
À la fois stimulant et passionnant, appuyé sur les travaux d'Esther Duflo, Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, etc., cet essai vif, pédagogique et amusant rouvre plusieurs perspectives : la réduction du temps de travail, le revenu universel, et plus largement la lutte contre la pauvreté et la réduction des inégalités, la taxation des flux financiers, et enfin l'ouverture des frontières. Alors laissons l'enthousiasme de l'auteur, à contre-courant du pessimisme ambiant, nous convaincre que de nouvelles propositions utopiques peuvent être envisageables à court terme.
The 4 Day Week is a practical, how-to guide for business leaders and employees alike that is applicable to nearly every industry. Using qualitative and quantitative data from research gathered through the Perpetual Guardian trial and other sources by the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology, the book presents a step-by-step approach to preparing businesses for productivity-focused flexibility, from the necessary cultural conditions to the often complex legislative considerations.
The story of Perpetual Guardian's unprecedented work experiment has made headlines around the world and stormed social media, reaching a global audience over 4.5 billion. A mix of trenchant analysis, personal observation and actionable advice, The 4 Day Week is an essential guide for leaders and workers seeking to make a change for the better in their work world.
Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?
Basic Income is a regular cash transfer from the state, received by all individual citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only by a few. Political parties across the world are now adopting it as official policy and the idea generates headlines every day. Guy Standing has been at the forefront of thought about Basic Income for the past thirty years, and in this book he covers in authoritative detail its effects on the economy, poverty, work and labour; dissects and disproves the standard arguments against Basic Income; explains what we can learn from pilots across the world and illustrates exactly why a Basic Income has now become such an urgent necessity.
The first half of Chris Hughes’s life played like a movie reel right out of the “American Dream.” He grew up in a small town in North Carolina. His parents were people of modest means, but he was accepted into an elite boarding school and then Harvard, both on scholarship. There, he met Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and became one of the co-founders of Facebook.
In telling his story, Hughes demonstrates the powerful role fortune and luck play in today’s economy. Through the rocket ship rise of Facebook, Hughes came to understand how a select few can become ultra-wealthy nearly overnight. He believes the same forces that made Facebook possible have made it harder for everyone else in America to make ends meet.
To help people who are struggling, Hughes proposes a simple, bold solution: a guaranteed income for working people, including unpaid caregivers and students, paid for by the one percent. The way Hughes sees it, a guaranteed income is the most powerful tool we have to combat poverty and stabilize America’s middle class. Money―cold hard cash with no strings attached―gives people freedom, dignity, and the ability to climb the economic ladder. A guaranteed income for working people is the big idea that's missing in the national conversation.
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making "good jobs" obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working -- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries-education and health care-that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself.
The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work. We must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading to understand what accelerating technology means for our economic prospects - not to mention those of our children-as well as for society as a whole.
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By introducing shorter working hours, the government can accelerate climate action. Our analysis indicates that shifting to a four-day working week by 2025 could shrink the UK's annual carbon footprint by 127 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, address some of the hardest to decarbonise emissions from international transport and manufacturing, and reduce the outsourcing of pollution to poorer countries.
To ensure the full environmental benefits of a shorter working week are gained, the government should put in place policies that support people in building low carbon leisure time into their routines and provide the necessary infrastructures for convivial, non-wage work and play
Moving towards much shorter hours of paid work offers a new route out of the multiple crises we face today. Many of us are consuming well beyond our economic means and well beyond the limits of the natural environment, yet in ways that fail to improve our well-being – and meanwhile many others suffer poverty and hunger. Continuing economic growth in high-income countries will make it impossible to achieve urgent carbon reduction targets. Widening inequalities, a failing global economy, critically depleted natural resources and accelerating climate change pose grave threats to the future of human civilization.
A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems. These include overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, and simply to enjoy life.
The time people spend in the workplace has varied dramatically throughout history, and still today varies widely between countries.
What today we consider to be a ‘natural’ amount of time to spend at work is a relatively recent invention. The nine-to-five, five-days-
a-week model for full-time work has been dominant for just 50 years, and even that is rapidly beginning to change. This report
is contemporary with a number of innovative models of work-time reduction currently in practice within the UK and internationally
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Canadian working lives have been altered in ways unimagined by most at the beginning of 2020. A new study from the Angus Reid Institute finds growing support for another fundamental change – a shorter work week.
Asked if they feel it would be a good idea to make a new 30-hour work week standard in Canada, 53 per cent of adults in this country say it would be a “good idea” – more than twice the number who say the opposite. This represents an increase in support compared to 2018 (+6 points).
Après des décennies de réduction progressive du temps de travail, un renversement de situation semble s’opérer depuis quelques années. Face à une telle régression, le mouvement syndical a réaffirmé son objectif historique de réduction graduelle du temps de travail.
Le présent guide entend contribuer à ce débat en montrant pourquoi la réduction du temps de travail est souhaitable et comment elle peut être organisée. Il est évident que la concrétisation effective d’une réduction du temps de travail dépend de la manière dont elle est mise en œuvre. Les nombreuses options en la matière sont examinées à l’aide d’expériences vécues pour illustrer leur caractère effectif. L’analyse des raisons qui motivent la réduction du temps de travail, des différentes manières de la mettre en place et de cinq brèves études de cas fournit la base d’une discussion tout à fait indispensable sur la meilleure manière de concevoir une réduction du temps de travail qui s’inscrive dans la durée.
The world of work is rapidly transforming. Businesses need to better understand their employees’ desires and aspirations, to enable them to recruit the best people and to keep those people happier and more productive in the workplace.
Henley Business School worked with independent insights firm Delineate on extensive research to explore a key piece to the puzzle ‒ enabling employees to lead more flexible working lives. The good news is that although it will require a change in mind-set for some businesses, the substantial benefits of enabling flexibility can come at a low cost.
We get to spend our time at work helping other organisations work better, work smarter, work human. And if there is one thing we can attest to in our combined thirty years of experience, it’s that work is changing, and it’s changing in a positive direction.
By adopting a four-day work week, The Mix demonstrated just one of the many creative and exciting avenues open to companies that are truly thinking about performance. Too often the business world embraces a ‘bottom line’ mentality, in which all that seems to matter is the numbers. But let’s think about that for a moment.