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Reduction of working hours in France

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There is no indication the reduction of working hours in France specifically is notable per GNG. The current article amalgamates various historical information in WP:OR/WP:SYNTH fashion. The only topical source cited explains that the reduction of working hours is a global phenomenon. This is further corroborated by the highly cited paper Huberman, Michael; Minns, Chris (2007). "The times they are not changin': Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870–2000" (PDF). Explorations in Economic History. 44 (4): 538–567. doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2007.03.002. which supports the same conclusion. JBchrch talk 12:36, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Economics and France. JBchrch talk 12:36, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Law and Social science. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:41, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge a summary into Working time to the extent these (mostly primary) sources would be useful there. No indication of independent notability. —Rutebega (talk) 17:47, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, this appears to be an unattributed translation of two of the four sections (lead and timeline) of the frwiki article on the same subject, fr:Réduction du temps de travail en France. That said, that part at least would be fairly easily corrected.
I think there is a reasonable amount of source material that addresses the case of France specifically, such as
- Dufour, Christian (2006). "Reduction of working time in France: a lone knight". In Keune, Maarten; Galgoczi, Bela (eds.). Collective bargaining on working time: recent European experiences (PDF). Brussels: European Trade Union Institute. ISBN 978-2-87452-014-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-01-10.
- Lallement, Michel (16 July 2009). "Les régulations du temps de travail en France". Informations sociales. 153 (3): 56–64. doi:10.3917/inso.153.0056.
- Michon, François (25 March 2009). From "Working Less for More Jobs" to "Working more for More Money": Recent Development and Issues on Working Time in France. JILPT Workshop on Working Time. Business Labor Trends. JILPT. pp. 12–14.
- Pinaud, Henri (12 January 2018) [Print version first published 2003]. "Worker Participation in the Reduction of Working Hours in France". In Gold, Michael (ed.). New Frontiers of Democratic Participation at Work (1 ed.). Routledge. pp. 224–248. ISBN 978-1-315-19819-4.
There also being sources that address working hours in general would not contradict that. Indeed, while not all sources covering working hours see fit to break it up into region specific reports, there are plenty that do, and those reports address this specific subtopic directly and in-detail as we require. While the main article (at slightly over 6000 readable prose words) is not quite at the point of a SIZESPLIT, I'm reasonably confident that there is sufficient source material available now to expand the article to an appropriate level that a standalone article is appropriate under WP:PAGEDECIDE. However I believe this is more appropriately covered at Working hours in France, for consistency and concision, with the correspondingly broader scope. Another thing to note is that RTT also refers to a statutory 35 hour work week in the early 2000s (see, for example, the JILPT). While it may form a significant part of this subtopic, I think it would be better to have the broader scope, and it is not quite at the point where I would think spinning out an article on that specific policy appropriate. Keep and move. Alpha3031 (t • c) 11:44, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Here are a couple of other interesting ones IMO:
Fagnani, Jeanne; Letablier, Marie-Thérèse (1 January 2007). "The French 35-Hour Working Law and the Work–Life Balance of Parents: Friend or Foe?". In Perrons, Diane (ed.). Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Changing Patterns of Work, Care and Public Policy in Europe and North America. Edward Elgar. doi:10.4337/9781845428976.00013. ISBN 978-1-84542-897-6. (mostly about the specific 35 hour law, as you can imagine given the chapter title)

Askenazy, Philippe (1 March 2013). "Working time regulation in France from 1996 to 2012". Cambridge Journal of Economics. 37 (2): 323–347. doi:10.1093/cje/bes084.

Thoemmes, Jens (26 August 2024). Time autonomy and work in France, Germany, and China: historical insights and emerging trends. Lanham: Lexington Books. ISBN 9781666969092. (this one has a different focus for once, comparing Germany and France)
Alpha3031 (t • c) 12:10, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]