{"id":6439,"date":"2019-09-12T08:25:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T08:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/?post_type=publications&p=6439"},"modified":"2019-09-12T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T08:22:25","slug":"how-to-achieve-shorter-working-hours","status":"publish","type":"publications","link":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/publications\/how-to-achieve-shorter-working-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"How to achieve shorter working hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this publication, Lord Skidelsky<\/a> outlines how working hours can be reduced in order to free up more time for leisure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the length of working time, leading to Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell commissioning a report from political economist and crossbench peer Robert Skidelsky on the feasibility of reducing working hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving an overview of the history of reductions in working time, Robert Skidelsky\u2019s report notes that the trend of steadily declining working hours has stalled since the 1980s<\/a>. He contends that this is because the \u2018virtuous circle\u2019 of full employment, high investment, productivity growth, real wage growth and strong trade unions has been brought to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His report calls for a target to reduce working time in the public sector to a 35-hour week<\/strong> over ten years, and provision for shorter hours in government procurement contracts. Alongside this, the report urges that hours reduction should be a conscious objective of social and economic policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this publication, Lord Skidelsky outlines how working hours can be reduced in order to free up more time for leisure. Over the last few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the length of working time, leading to Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell commissioning a report from political economist and crossbench peer Robert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6467,"template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[177,176,174,179],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-6439","publications","type-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-2-authors","category-no-of-authors","category-publication-type","category-report","tag-work-and-pay"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/6439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeconomyforum.com\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}