ABSTRACT
As stated at the outset, the main purpose of this book is to study economic relationships between working time and employment without imposing collective bargaining constraints on these and their related factor price variables. This has enabled us to deal with a number of quite fundamental and general labour market relationships without being side-tracked by the particular attitudes of given governments, employers and trade unions. Of course, in reality, changes in working time are usually conditioned, to a greater or lesser extent, by interaction among these three groups. In this chapter, the discussion is broadened in order to represent some of the implications to the foregoing developments of these types of consideration.
