{"title":"From worktime reduction to a post-work future: Implications for sustainable consumption governance","authors":"Maurie J. Cohen","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00022","url":null,"abstract":"The proposition of reduced working hours has received notable but inconsistent attention in research on sustainable consumption governance over the past two decades (Schor, 1998; 2005; Sanne, 2002; Kallis et al., 2013; Nässén and Larsson, 2015; Mont, 2016). This ambivalence can be attributed to a material-centric worldview among scholars, policymakers, and advocates that emphasizes biophysical flows and tends to disregard human labour and the resultant incomes that enable and reproduce commercial provisioning activities. Moreover, the pursuit of sustainable consumption has been premised on a discernible conceit – one that is contrary to the historical record and in all likelihood mostly mistaken – that consumer-led innovation rather than novel producer capabilities constitutes the leading edge of social change. Nonetheless, the notion that limiting worktime could lead to a lowering of greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to other environmental and social improvements remains an important tenet of sustainable consumption governance (Fuchs and Lorek, 2005; Keller et al., 2016). While prominent exceptions exist, systematic efforts to pursue worktime reduction as a way to decrease resource throughput have, to date, been constrained by a lack of willingness by policymakers to act on this knowledge (Coote et al., 2010; Knight et al., 2013; Pullinger, 2014).","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121522725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-Conditions for Sustainable Consumption Governance","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127758183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternative Systems of Provisioning and Consuming","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128074737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}