New labour and the redistribution of time

Political Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-264

  Campbell, Mary ^a  

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EID: 33748478086     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00768.x     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. For political perspectives, see the following: House of Lords European Union Committee's Ninth Report of the 2003-4 Session, The EU Working Time Directive (HL67);
2. House of Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry's Seventh Report of the 2004-5 Session, UK Employment Regulation (HC90).
3. See also Out of Time, a 2006 Research Paper for the TUC by C. Fagan, A. Hegewisch and J. Pillinger;
4. and the documents on the 2005-6 Work and Families legislation, available via the DTI website (www.dti.gov.uk).
5. For 'socio-temporal justice', see T. Fitzpatrick in Economy and Society, vol. 33, no. 3, 2004.
6. For recent academic discussions, see papers in Time and Society, vol. 14, no. 1, 2005,
7. and J. C. Messenger, ed., Working Time and Workers' Preferences in Industrialized Countries, Routledge, 2004.
8. This suggests the possibility, hinted at in Select Committee discussions, that, what-ever the substantive arguments, the government may see a decisive political and EU governance case for opposing the end of the opt-out. The Working Time Directive is subject to qualified majority voting. At EU level in 2005, the new member states supported the long-term British position, support not available earlier and not necessarily reliable if core EU member states were in future to try to change the directive - say, to reduce the 48-hour figure or increase the statutory role of the social partners.
9. See A. Hegewisch in Working Time for Working Families: Europe and the United States, published in 2005 by the Washington Office of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung which also includes J. Fagnani on the 35-hour week legislation in France and analysis of the Netherlands by
10. S. Burri; D. Smeaton and A. Marsh, Maternity and Paternity Rights and Benefits, DTI, March 2006.