Time on Our Side: Why We All Need a Shorter Working Week - Hardcover

BARBARA ADAM is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Her prime expertise is in social and socio-environmental time, working the time dimension into areas of conceptual and empirical social science research - including culture, education, environment, environmental economics, food, globalisation, gender, health, international relations, management, media, risk, technological innovation, transport and work. She has published extensively on the social relations of time and the future and is founding editor of the journal Time & Society. VALERIE BRYSON is Emerita Professor of Politics at the University of Huddersfield. Her research interests focus on the overlapping areas of feminist political theory, women and politics, and the politics of time. Her recent publications include 'Women and Feminization' in T. Heppell and D. Seawright (eds); Redefining Social Justice: New Labour rhetoric and reality, with P. Fisher (eds) (Manchester University Press, 2011); Sexuality, Gender and Power, Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives, with A. Jonasdottir and K. Jones (eds) (Routledge, 2011); and Gender and the Politics of Time: Feminist theory and contemporary debates (The Policy Press, 2007). TANIA BURCHARDT is deputy director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and senior Lecturer, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics. Her research interests are in: theories of social justice, including the capability approach; employment, welfare and exclusion; and equality and inequality in Britain. Her current research focuses on inequality in respect of care services; and equality, capability and human rights. She has published widely and her recent publications include 'Time, Income and Substantive Freedom: A capability approach', Time & Society, 19(3): 318-344 (2010); and Social Justice and Public Policy: Seeking fairness in diverse societies (with G Craig and D Gordon) (The Policy Press, 2008). MOLLY CONISBEE is co-founder of think and do tank, Bread, Print and Roses. Prior to that, she was Director of External Affairs at the Soil Association. Molly has also worked in a variety of press, research and public affairs roles for leading think tanks, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and nef (the new economics foundation) and in local government and the NHS. Molly has authored and co-authored numerous policy and campaign reports, including Environmental Refugees: The case for recognition (with Andrew Simms); Walk the Line: Railways after the Beeching Axe and The Reconquest of Bread. Molly is an editor and blogger on the leading political website, shiftinggrounds.org. ANNA COOTE is Head of Social Policy at nef and a leading analyst, writer and advocate in the field of social policy. She was responsible for ground-breaking work on health and sustainable development as commissioner for health with the UK Sustainable Development Commission (2000-09). She led the Healthcare Commission's work on engaging patients and the public (2005-08) and was director of Health Policy at the King's Fund (1998-2004). Earlier posts include Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of IPPR from 1989-98, Editor and Producer of current affairs television for Diverse Productions (1982-86), and Deputy Editor of the New Statesman (1978-82). Anna has written widely on social policy, sustainable development, public health policy, public involvement and democratic dialogue, gender and equality. She is co-author of 21 Hours: Why a shorter working week can help us all to flourish in the 21st century, with A. Simms & J. Franklin (nef, 2010). MARK DAVIS is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He is the founder and director of the Bauman Institute, an international research and teaching centre established to meet the challenge of creating fairer, more resilient, and more sustainable societies around the world. He was the UK's lead academic participant in the Expert Advisory Group to the Council of Europe (2008-11) that drafted the European Charter of Shared Social Responsibilities, which was launched with Members of the European Parliament in Brussels in March 2011. His research on the social and political consequences of global consumerism is a key part of the 'Building Sustainable Societies' research programme at Leeds and he is a consultant in this area for national think tanks in the UK, including nef and Compass. He is currently researching the concept of 'community resilience' and the role democratic finance can play in promoting greater levels of social cohesion. Dr Davis is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. ANGELA DRUCKMAN is Senior Lecturer in the Centre of Environment Strategy at the University of Surrey. After reading engineering at the University of Cambridge, and gaining Chartered Engineer status through working in electronics research and development, Angela now is a leading researcher on the environmental impacts of household consumption. She has published widely and has a particular interest in exploring the links between the carbon footprint of different types of lifestyles and UK households. JANE FRANKLIN is a researcher in the social policy team at nef. She is a policy analyst and political sociologist whose research interests include critical engagement with neoliberal policy discourses; equality and social justice in Britain; and feminist theory and politics. She has worked at the Institute for Public Policy Research (1989-97); London South Bank University (1997-2007), and the Young Foundation (2007-08). She is co-author of 21 Hours: Why a shorter working week can help us all flourish in the 21st century, with Anna Coote and Andrew Simms (nef, 2010). ANDERS HAYDEN is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. His primary research interest is the social and political responses to climate change, particularly the evolving balance between efforts to promote ecological modernisation ('green growth') and sufficiency-based challenges to the endless growth of production and consumption. He is the author of the book Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work time, consumption and ecology. He previously worked as research and policy co-ordinator for 32 Hours, a Toronto based group committed to a reduction and redistribution of work time. BRONWYN HAYWARD is a senior lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a visiting fellow with the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey. Her research focus is democracy and youth in periods of environmental, social and economic change. Her most recent book is: Children, Citizenship and Environment: Nurturing a democratic imagination in a changing world (Earthscan/Routledge, 2012). TIM JACKSON is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey. From 2006 to 2009 he led the Sustainable Development Commission's Redefining Prosperity programme and authored the controversial report, later published by Earthscan as Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a finite planet (2009-11).Tim's research interests at Surrey have focused on the relationship between lifestyle, well-being and the environment, with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and the Environment (RESOLVE) and the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group (SLRG) funded by Defra, the Scottish Government and the ESRC. He has also been awarded an ESRC professorial fellowship to study Prosperity and Sustainability in the Green Economy (PASSAGE). This project includes - in collaboration with Professor Peter Victor (York University, Toronto) - the development of the Green Economy Macro-Model and Accounts (GEMMA). Tim has published widely in his field. DOMINIQUE MEDA is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris-Dauphine and Chair of Ecological conversion, work, employment, and social policy' at the Colleges d'Etudes Mondiales. Her work has focused on the value and meaning of work, on issues of gender equality and finding a better balance between work and family life for men and women, as well as improving the position of women in employment. Her current work focuses on the balance between work, social and environmental policy and she has recently published Redefining progress in the light of the ecological crisis (Veblen Institute for Economic Reforms, 2012). MARTIN PULLINGER is an ecological economist, whose research looks at the interactions between environmental sustainability and human wellbeing, focusing on how these two can be combined. His work seeks to produce new insights into how different everyday practices and working patterns influence household carbon footprints, energy and water use, and well-being. He has contributed to research into the design of policies and interventions to promote well-being and more sustainable lifestyles, practices and behaviours. He currently works on the IDEAL home energy advice project at Edinburgh University. JULIET B. SCHOR is a professor in the sociology department of Boston College. Her scholarly interests are consumer society and consumer culture; working hours and lifestyles; environmental degradation; the emergence of a sustainable consumption and production sector, including political consumption and the new sharing economy, and alternative, sustainable economies and societies. Her 'work and spend' cycle is an integrated approach to production and consumption which emphasises the sociological dynamics that determine spending. Most recently she is working on issues of sustainable consumption and production, with particular emphasis on political consumption, new patterns of time use, and alternative economic structures. As a member of a MacArthur Research Network she is studying the emergence of collaborative consumption. She is widely published in her field, and noted publications include The overworked American: The unexpected decline of leisure (Basic Books 1992); 'Sustainable Consumption and Work time Reduction', Journal of Industrial Ecology, Special Issue on Sustainable Consumption, 9(1): 37-50, 2005; and True Wealth: How and why millions of Americans are creating a time rich, ecologically light, small-scale, high satisfaction economy (Penguin, 2011). Schor is a co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream, and the organiser of the Summer Institute in New Economics - a programme in new economics for graduate students. ANDREW SIMMS is the author of several books including the bestselling Tescopoly. He is a fellow of nef and was its policy director for a decade. He trained at the London School of Economics and was described by New Scientist magazine as, 'a master at joined-up progressive thinking.' Andrew is a long-standing campaigner who coined the term 'Clone Towns' in work on local economic regeneration, co-authored the groundbreaking Green New Deal, was one of the original organisers of the campaign to cancel poor country debt, co-founded the climate campaign onehundredmonth.org and devised 'Ecological Debt Day'. After witnessing at first hand over two decades of failed international efforts to solve critical problems ranging from extreme poverty to climate change, his latest book Cancel the Apocalypse: The new path to prosperity (2013) is the result of a search for something better. ROBERT SKIDELSKY is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University. His three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) won five prizes. A single volume abridgment appeared in 2002. A revised edition of his book on the current crisis, Keynes: The Return of the Master, was published in September 2010. He was made a member of the House of Lords in 1991 (he sits on the cross-benches) and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994. He is a non-executive director of Rusnano Capital and formerly of Janus Capital and Sistema JSC. His most recent book, How Much is Enough? The love of money and the case for the good life, co-written with his son Edward, was published in July 2012.