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Article: Extended working hours in Australia. (Notes & Issues).
- Article from:
- Labour & Industry
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
- Author:
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A distinctive problem of extended (or `long' or `excessive') working hours has recently emerged in Australia. The problem is most clearly seen if we focus just on full-time employees--the core group within the workforce. Previous research (Campbell, 2001) confirms that average working hours of full-time employees in Australia are long, and since the early 1980s they have been steadily getting longer. This is a peculiar trend, at odds with both the long-term historical experience in Australia and the contemporaneous experiences in most of the other advanced capitalist societies grouped within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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