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Sloan Network Updates and Announcements
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 The Sloan Work and Family Research Network has recently experienced some staff changes that we would like to make our affiliates aware of.
We’d also like to call your attention to two new topic pages on our website: Phased Retirement and Overwork.
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| Reduced Work Hours in France: Help or Hindrance to Work and Family Balance? |
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Jeanne Fagnani |
An Interview with Jeanne Fagnani, Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
by Suzan Lewis and Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya
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Lewis: Could you begin by providing an overview of the 35-hour law in France?
Fagnani: In 1998 and 2000, two laws were passed under the Socialist government. One aim of the new laws was to improve work-life balance. However, the main objective was to reduce unemployment and create jobs by sharing work more evenly. In fact, they did create more jobs, although there was some controversy about the actual increase in the number of jobs. Some economists state that there was at that time a better economic situation...
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General Limits on Hours Worked
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Source: This chart is adapted from The International Labour Organization’s Working Time Database, which “contains information on the principal legislative measures adopted in more than 100 ILO member States.” The data represented here is general, most of these limits can be altered per each countries’ rules for specific circumstances. The chart provides data from countries of various regions, development, and size.
*Data for India represents agricultural workers only.
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Jeanne Fagnani discusses the 35 hour laws in France. |
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A new work-family book edited by Barbara Schneider and Linda Waite is featured in the Sloan Corner. |
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The Sloan Work and Family Research Network maintains an
online database which contains the citations and annotations of work-family research publications.
A year ago, there were 6,120 citations in the Literature Database. As of August 2005, we now have over 6,534 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications from those that have recently been entered into this database.
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Work-Family Book
Being together, working apart: Dual-career families and the work-life balance
Barbara Schneider and Linda Waite (Eds.). 2005
Being together, working apart: Dual-career families and the work-life balance
Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521607892
This book is based on research findings from the Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children and Work at the University of Chicago. Five hundred families with kindergarten-age and teenage children were interviewed in 8 cities nationwide for “The Five Hundred Family Study”. Contributors to the book include Kathleen...
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"Being Together, Working Apart"
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Phone: 617-552-4033 / 617-552-1708
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