Rethink Work

Changing how we think about work

Scientific Journals

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  • faviconCultivating a Leisurely Life in a Culture of Crowded Time: Rethinking the Work/Leisure Dichotomy — many people wish to replace this paradigm with something more liberating and meaningful, a lifestyle that is not dependent on the traditional temporal schemata of obligation (2007)
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Leisure, Research   
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    Source: Scientific Journals    

  • faviconThe four-day, thirty-two-hour week: analysing organisational success and failure — Based on data from 200+ global companies trialling four-day, 32-hour weeks with full pay, 90% maintained the schedule. Firms that failed to reduce stress or had more white males were likelier to revert, aligning with legitimacy theory [2025]
    In: Working hours    
    Topics: 4 Day Week, Research   
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    Source: Scientific Journals    

  • faviconLabor Organizing in the Age of Surveillance — Labor law’s approach to policing workplace surveillance is woefully inadequate, as new surveillance methods yield much more and much better information for employers aiming to nip workers’ concerted activity in the bud (PDF) [2018]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Research, Technofeudalism   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Scientific Journals    

  • faviconA meta-analysis on the crossover of workplace traumatic stress symptoms between partners — Workers’ PTSD/distress from violence, harassment and abuse on the job is as harmful for their intimate partners as the traumatic stressors are for workers encountering them firsthand, shows research [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Mental Health, Research   
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    Source: Scientific Journals    

  • faviconDoes less working time improve life satisfaction? Working fewer hours contributes to higher life satisfaction in Europe, and health plays an essential mediating role in this relationship, shows research [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: 4 Day Week, Research   
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    Source: Scientific Journals    

  • faviconModern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Adequate social security is vital to the functioning of society, as well as to the health and well-being of the population and Universal Basic Income can help by offering stable, individual, non-means tested, and unconditional money transfers, to all citizens [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Research, UBI   
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    Country: UK   
    Source: Scientific Journals    

  • faviconWealthy nations rely on a large net appropriation of labour and resources from the rest of the world through unequal exchange in international trade and global commodity chains. Southern wages are 87–95% lower than Northern wages for work of equal skill. While Southern workers contribute 90% of the labour that powers the world economy, they receive only 21% of global income [2024]
    In: Predatory capitalism    
    Topics: Research   
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    Country: DE,  UK,  US   
    Source: Scientific Journals    

  • faviconWorkers are less likely to go on strike in recent decades because they are more likely to be in debt and fear losing their jobs. Study examined cases in Japan, Korea, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom over the period 1970–2018 [2023]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Research, Worker Rights   
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    Source: Scientific Journals