In this new report commissioned by the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and published by PEF, Lord Skidelsky sets out how shorter working hours could be achieved.
Robert Skidelsky (Crossbench Peer and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick) is the UK’s foremost Keynesian economist, author of the award-winning and definitive biography of John Maynard Keynes and a leading expert on the future of work.
In “How to achieve shorter working hours” Lord Skidelsky outlines why the trend of falling working hours has effectively stalled since the 1980s and how shorter working hours can be accomplished.
Joining Lord Skidelsky to comment on this report were Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, Patrick Allen, Founder and Chair of PEF, Rachel Kay, researcher for Lord Skidelsky’s inquiry into working time, Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation and Kevin Rowan, Head of Organising, Services and Learning at the TUC.
John McDonnell praised the publication, which he described as “meticulously researched” and stated “I’d like to thank Lord Skidelsky for his report which we will study and draw on when looking at how to reduce the typical working week without loss of pay”.
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