Excessive Working Hours
Workers´ associations, labor unions, intellectuals and social movements relentlessly struggle against long working hours. In spite of these struggles, long working hours persist all over the world. The aim of this article is to foster the discussion on excessive working hours, which are called exces...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Instituto Paranaense de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (IPARDES) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Paranaense de Desenvolvimento (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.ipardes.emnuvens.com.br:article/581 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ipardes.emnuvens.com.br/revistaparanaense/article/view/581 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Work. Working time. Excessive working hours. Health. Security. Trabajo. Tiempo de trabajo. Jornada excesiva. Salud. Seguridad. Trabalho. Tempo de trabalho. Jornada excessiva. Saúde. Seguridade |
| Sumario: | Workers´ associations, labor unions, intellectuals and social movements relentlessly struggle against long working hours. In spite of these struggles, long working hours persist all over the world. The aim of this article is to foster the discussion on excessive working hours, which are called excessive because they violate the standard of civility stipulated by the International Labor Organization in 1919, that was, in turn, established as standard work practice by the Russian Revolution of 1918. This standard, which was later adopted by many nation states, is based on the eight-hour work day and forty-eight hour work week. This study is based on evidence of excessive working hours in countries of all five continents, with emphasis on information from the European Union, and the analysis of data from censuses and the PNAD (National Household Sample Survey) in Brazil. An estimate of global average working hours, the portrayal of excessive working hours in countries of central and peripheral capitalism, and the description of increase and decrease trends all introduce key arguments in a debate that involves work, health and security, as well as the nature of contemporary capitalist development, the globalization process, modernity and value. |
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