Travailler au-delà de 48 heures par semaine

Devetter, François-Xavier

doi:10.4000/travailemploi.1955

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“…Three categories of working hours were defined, based on the number of hours worked per week: less then 35, 35-80, and over 80. The choice of these categories depends on various converging factors: first, statistical ''boundaries,'' which constitute distinct thresholds; second, these three categories correspond to distinct ways of life (the central category groups those whose behavioural patterns conform to the average in developed countries, whereas the other two are considerably different from the average); lastly, given the issues being studied in this paper, the authors thought it important to define that category (long hours workers) (Devetter 2008) from the point where its income increases noticeably (see Figure 1). Thus, a distinction was made between short, standard and long hours, accounting for 10%, 70% and 20% of the sample respectively.…”

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Working Hours and Sustainable Development

Devetter¹,

Rousseau

2011

Review of Social Economy

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Many works on sustainable development stress the part played by reduced working hours in the promotion of a model for alternative development. The direct link between working hours and the environment, however, still deserves to be supported. This is the issue we would like to discuss through an analysis of the relationships between consumption and working hours. We use surveys on French household expenses to highlight the environmental consequences of long hours: they encourage goods and energy-intensive consumptions and favour conspicuous expenditure and nonsustainable lifestyles.

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Working Hours and Sustainable Development

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Rousseau

2011

Review of Social Economy

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“…The share of French employees who usually work more than 48 hours per week is high by European standards (in France it was at almost 9% in 2008 (5% among women and 12% among men) while the EU average was 7%; the comparative number was 5% for Germany and 13% for the United Kingdom (Lehndorff, Wagner, and Franz 2010). True, 11% of these employees are blue-collar workers with a high incidence of night and weekend work, which suggests that financial reasons are a crucial driver behind their long working hours (Devetter 2008). Almost every second employee with extra-long hours, however, belongs to the category of cadres , out of which 56% report that they can “freely” choose their hours of work (ibid.…”

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“…workers in hour brackets as a percentage of all workers; France, women (left) and men(right), 1995/2002/2008. Sources: Lehndorff, Wagner, and Franz (2010; database: eU-LFs; author's portrayal.…”

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It’s a Long Way from Norms to Normality

Lehndorff

2014

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the present overview on existing research addresses the double implication of working-time standards as legal (or contractual) norms, on the one hand, and socially established normality, on the other. Looking primarily at the evidence on the statutory 35-hour week in France, the author discusses the question of how changes in norms as stipulated by law or collective agreements may affect working-time practices in the society. given the specific institutional and policy tradition of statist intervention in France, a comparison with the effects of the contractual 35-hour week on actual hours in the West german metal industry highlights particular strengths and weaknesses of the French approach. While the empirical evidence underscores the crucial importance of statutory norms and the interaction between governments and social actors, it equally reveals the increasing difficulties to set limits to normal hours for growing shares of the workforce just by setting statutory or collective norms. the transformation of new working-time norms into normality leading to a generalized shorter standard workweek is a long-term social process that requires continual intervention of actors at various levels and must be embedded in agreements both at the workplace and within households. C hanging working-time standards takes time. If we look back at workingtime developments in the capitalist world in general and in 20th-century europe in particular, it is easy to distinguish two major long-term trends. the first, and fundamental, change was the step-by-step establishment of the 8-hour day and, later, the 40-hour week as a legally mandated or widely adopted contractual standard. this was accomplished by the 1970s or 1980s in large parts of europe (much earlier in the United states) and by the 1990s and early 2000s in eastern europe and Portugal. the second trend, which has gained ground over the last 20 or 30 years, is the proliferation of nonstandard working hours above and below the 40-hour standard across many countries and industries.In most countries, once the 40-hour week was established, the general push for shorter standard work hours lost momentum. While some trade * steffen Lehndorff is Research Fellow at the University of Duisburg-essen. many thanks to Peter Berg, gerhard Bosch, Jean Charest, michel Lallement, eleonora matteazzi, François Rycx, and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions. Correspondence can be directed to steffen.lehndorff@uni-due.de.

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“…Work time is the focal point of much policy debate as long work hours are considered a source of individual distress and family tensions (Burke and Fiksenbaum, 2008;Major et al, 2002;Totterdell, 2005). Often defined as working in excess of 48 hours a week (Devetter, 2008), the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (2007) cited long work hours as one of the ten most important emerging psychosocial risks. However, though there may be cause for concern, reviews of the scientific findings offer rather uncertain conclusions regarding the association between work hours and health.…”

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A balanced view of long work hours

Haines

Marchand

Genin

et al. 2012

International Journal of Workplace Health Management

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to address the theoretical ordering of the associations between work hours, psychological demands, decision latitude, and psychological distress. Design/methodology/approach -A mediation model, predicting that the association between long work hours and psychological distress is mediated by psychological demands and decision latitude, was tested with a representative sample of 7,802 individuals in full-time paid employment surveyed by a government agency. Structural equation modeling was used and the full mediation model was replicated for subsamples of men and women. The analysis controlled for demographic variables, work characteristics and socioeconomic status. Findings -As expected, decision latitude is associated with less and psychological demands with more psychological distress. Long work hours are associated with more decision latitude and psychological demands. The association between long work hours and psychological distress is mediated by psychological demands and decision latitude. The mediation process was supported in male and female sub-samples. Research limitations/implications -Considering the weak associations between work hours and psychological strain reported in previous research, the findings of this study support new theorizing about this association. Accordingly, long work hours may be viewed as a distal variable influencing the duration of exposure to psychological demands. The study reported here also underscores the need to further investigate the positive consequences of long work hours within the context of psychological contracts. Originality/value -This is one of the few studies that conceptualize work hours as something other than an occupational risk factor or as a job demand with a direct impact on psychological strain. It thus provides a new basis for thinking about the process through which long work hours may influence psychological strain.

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Travailler au-delà de 48 heures par semaine

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Working Hours and Sustainable Development

Working Hours and Sustainable Development

It’s a Long Way from Norms to Normality

A balanced view of long work hours

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