This publication addresses the extremely important and topical issue of shaping working time under the conditions of the “new economy”. Globalization and integration have changed the nature of working time management - indeed, it has ceased to be an internal matter of individual countries, having taken on the international scope because of increasing competitiveness and labour costs. Thus, analysis of the experiences of diverse countries at divergent levels of development, which this work is devoted to, offers important cognitive and practical usefulness.

The book is based on the rich achievements of world science, the vast literature on the subject, and the authors’ original research. It has many new elements to our knowledge of both the present and future working time in the new economy.