Evaluation Working Time Reduction as an Environmental Strategy
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Stern review (2006), and several independent researchers, such as Rockström et al. (2009), and Biggs et al. (2009), have demonstrated that human activities are having a deteriorating affect on the environment, causing significant climate change. Recent economic literatures have argued that an efficient tool in reducing the ecological footprint is reduction in working time (Pullinger, 2014; LaJeunesse, 2009; Coote et al., 2010). Conflict over the extensive utilisation of labour also has ramifications for work-life balance and the distribution of income (Philp and Wheatley, 2013; Philp et al., 2015). The aim of this project is to explore this intersection between work-time preferences and environmental attitudes, raising normative questions over distribution and the possibility of contradictory incentives between employers, employees and society in general. The conceptual basis will be pluralistic, drawing from heterodox approaches to economics, including feminist and ecological economics.
Journal papers
‘Environmental and Societal Attitudes to Working Hours in Gendered Perspective’. 2018. With Bruce Philp and Chiara Donegani.
‘Economic Reductionism and Conceptions of Class’. With Eleni Papagiannaki and Bruce Philp. Review of Political Economy Special Issue Book Chapters
‘Combating Climate Change Through the Estate and Curriculum – A Whole-Institution Commitment at Nottingham Trent University’ with Lina Erlandsson, Petra Molthan-Hill and Amanda Smith
In Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Walter Leal Filho and João Paulo Davim (eds). Higher Education Institutions in a Global Warming World
The Transition of Higher Education Institutions to a Low Carbon Economy. River Publishers (2017).
‘Work Time and Environmental Impact in Global Perspective’ with Bruce Philp. In Paladini S. (eds.) Emerging Markets and Sustainable Economies.
2018 Selected Conference Contributions
Presented at Association for Heterodox Economics 20th Annual Conference “Sustainable Economy and Economics” (2018).
The International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics Conference – ‘It's the end of the world and we know it: an intersectional analysis of worktime and environmental preferences’, Philadelphia, USA (2018).
‘Rising to the Challenge of Collaborative Research’ Research Seminar; Birmingham City Councils annual research event showcasing examples of local research and best practice (2017).
Book reviews
“Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time”. By Christoph Hermann. With Bruce Philp. International Review of Social History, 2018