The ILO is the best. They need to make their research cheaper though.
New ILO book explores “Decent Working Time Deficit” in the industrialized countries
Twenty per cent or more of the workforce in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan work at least 50 hours a week, compared with fewer than 10 per cent in most European countries, according to a new publication authored by the International Labour Office (ILO).
“Working Time and Workers’ Preferences in Industrialized Countries: Finding the Balance”, produced by the ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Programme, argues that there are substantial gaps between the hours that people are actually working and the number of hours that workers need or would prefer to work.
During the late 1990s, people working in excess of 50 hours per week in the US and Australia increased from 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the workforce. Among those countries included in the study, only Japan (28.1 per cent) and New Zealand (21.3 per cent) had a higher proportion working more than 50 hours per week.
By contrast, in most EU countries (prior to the 2004 expansion) the number of people working 50 hours or more per work remains well under 10 per cent, with figures ranging from 1.4 per cent in the Netherlands to 6.2 in Greece and Ireland. The only exception is the United Kingdom, where some 15.5 per cent of the workforce spends 50 hours or more at work.
The overall pattern underlying these variations is that countries with relatively limited regulation of working time, such as the US, the UK and Australia, tend to have a much higher incidence of excessive hours than other countries, according to the book.
So….this is really more of an academic study than a book. It costs 132 bucks….not exactly a Barnes and Noble special. I can’t afford it anyway.
The ILO is a branch of the UN that promotes labor rights, social justice, and human rights. It was founded in 1919 and is the only surviving major creation of the Treaty of Versailles which brought the League of Nations into being and it became the first specialized agency of the UN in 1946.
Of course with a spelling like “Labour” and the promotion of labor rights, it is not a creation of the US. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
Does anyone know anyone that works at the ILO or the UN?
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Of course nobody knows anyone who “works” there. What the book failed to mention is that people at the ILO or UN only work 4 minutes a week. Why do you think the book cost so much? It’s because it took them 42 years to write it.
It would only take them a day on Venus.