As precarity and low pay become further embedded in the job market, at a time when work-related stress and exhaustion are endemic, it is clear that a new, radical approach to employment is required. This urgent and timely book shows what a shorter working week means in the context of capitalist economies and delves into the history of this idea as well as its political implications. Publisher's website.

Introduction: A fight as old as capitalism itself -- Living in the work-obsessed society -- Untapped potential: labour-saving technology and human flourishing -- Women's time and the shorter working week -- Time for the environment -- The struggle for the shorter working week.