Stressa hem från jobbet för att hinna slappna av : En text om förkortad arbetstid, livskvalité, normer och rättigheter

Sammanfattning: In the thesis I begin with trying to clarify how we have understood our working time until today and how we ended up like we did, by looking back at the history of working hours and how people have evaluated and looked upon their time use historically. In the next chapter I try to answer whether or not we could shorten our working hours with a maintained, or even increased, quality of life, turning to Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach. It appears to be pointing in that direction – so the next question is naturally why we keep working as much as we do, and why so many Swedish politicians have chosen to put the question of shorter working hours on hold in recent years. To answer that question I use Paul Fuehrer’s theory of how modern human beings’ time use is colonized by the economic hegemony. The thesis ends with a discussion about how the human rights perspective handles the question of working hours, both discussing the right to work and the right to free time.