http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/eva-cox/ Eva Cox AO is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Development (http://cpd.org.au) and contributing author to their recent publication More Than Luck: Ideas Australia needs now (http://morethanluck.cpd.org.au). Eva was until recently Program Director, Social Inquiry at the University of Technology Sydney, and is now practising being an unattached change agent while reviving her consultancy, Distaff Associates.  She is also a Research Fellow at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at UTS and on a current living legend postage stamp. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hands-up-for-a-30-hour-working-week/ Is there one clear possible area of policy reform that would provide a good basis for making society more civil? A core issue that affects a range of social well being indicators and our life choices? Could too much to do and longer working hours be at the heart of the discontents and social inadequacies of contemporary life? Reducing standard working hours would challenge some basic political and social assumptions such as the ways our time is allocated between paid work and the rest of our lives. In most developed nations, we have moved in the opposite direction, from long-term commitments to reduce standard working hours (48 hours to 35) in the last century to implicit support for ever longer working hours.  I remember debates in the 60s and 70s about how we might use the increased leisure that we expected to come from technological change and automation.  feedback@thepunch.com.au (Eva Cox) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hands-up-for-a-30-hour-working-week/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hands-up-for-a-30-hour-working-week/#item5139 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:00:13 +0000 Eva Cox | Author bios | The Punch