Reduced Worktime and the Management of Production

Chris Nyland

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511664748

This book examines the tendency in market economies to reduce the time workers spend at their place of employment and considers the role scientific management has played in this development. The author contends that the changing nature of worktime can be explained by changes in both the capitalistic production process and the demands that this process places on the psycho-physiological capacities of human beings. Between 1870 and 1980, the total annual worktime in major industrialized nations decreased by approximately 40 percent. This accelerated rate of worktime change is discussed in the context of the economic revival of capitalism that began in the first half of the twentieth century and culminated in the 'long boom' of 1945–1970. Professor Nyland argues that this revival is primarily explained by the rapid development and application of the process associated with scientific management. He further asserts that this science has been seriously misunderstood by most modern scholars outside socialist nations.

"The great strength of Nyland's volume is its attempt to offer a systematic theory of why employers accepted or promoted reduced worktime." Wayne Lewchuk, Business History Review

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

1 - The history of worktime thought
pp 1-36

2 - Empirical evidence and worktime theory
pp 37-66

3 - Worktime and the effort bargain
pp 67-98

4 - The rationalisation of worktime
pp 99-155

5 - The internationalisation of rationalised worktimes
pp 156-193

Conclusion
pp 194-203

References
pp 204-214

Index
pp 215-217

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