Contesting Time: International Comparisons of Employee Control of Working Time
通过2000年对七国管理者、政策制定者和工会领袖的访谈，分析制度环境、劳动力市场和管理策略如何影响员工对工作时间和总工时的控制权，比较各国差异。
The authors hypothesize that three broad factors affect the degree of workers' control over the timing and the total hours of their work: the institutional and regulatory environment within the country, labor market conditions, and management and labor union strategies. Drawing from their interviews in 2000 with managers, public sector policy-makers and administrators, and union leaders, as well as from previous literature, they illustrate how these factors actually affected working time and employee control over working time in the United States, Australia, Japan, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Their comparative analysis shows that in some countries, employers and labor unions negotiated contracts that increased employee control over working time and provided employers with greater flexibility; in others, employee control over working time remained unevenly distributed across the occupational spectrum. © by Cornell University.