Women's time: Women in the light of contemporary time-budget research

Responses to a multinational project that compared people's time-budgets from 12 different regions, plus similar additional survey research, give unambiguous and dramatic insights into the social reality of the sexual division of labour. Restrictive laws against women have generally been eliminated and labour-saving devices in the home widely adopted, but wives, employed or not, are still the victims of old-fashioned attitudes, and work far longer hours than men. Changes in attitudes by men and women, combined with educational and economic improvements, are necessary to accelerate the movement towards the symmetrical family where equivalent duties and rewards are shared.     

On Work and Authority: Issues in Job Enlargement, Job Enrichment, Worker Participation and Shared Authority

Abstract . Continued debate over the nature of work is adding to an existing vast literature in labor economics, business and personnel administration, industrial sociology and social psychology. Both theory and experience indicate that the authoritarian workplace results in social costs through reduced labor productivity and increased worker dissatisfaction. But progress toward shared authority and worker participation in the administration of the production process promises to be slow. Management generally preserves a legitimized authority, defending it with the misplaced rationale of elitism, i.e., the presumed functional superiority of managers. Unions will not press for shared authority, for to do so would undermine their basic and formal function of organizational restraint of managerial authority. Thus, while management and union logically protect their traditional roles, the worker and society are denied the potential benefits of basic changes in work and authority.     

Konfidenzgrenzen für die Ausschußhäufigkeit bei abschnittsweisen Probeentnahmen und serienweisem Vorkommen der Schlechtstücke

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