@conference {1904,
	title = {Working Less: Policies for Fairness in the Sharing of Liberated Time},
	booktitle = {Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity},
	year = {2014},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {Key words: working less leisure time justice Narrative step: Strategies for Transformation SUMMARY The degrowth vision of working less to enjoy life more is reserved primarily for people who possess certain material or philosophical tools. From Epicurus to anti-consumerism, overworked masses have indirectly subsidized lovers of idle conviviality. Therefore, opposition to wealth inequality should feature a struggle for justice in the realm of leisure time. The idle Thoreau, walking through forests, creates more wealth than the entrepreneur who {\textquotedblleft}productively{\textquotedblright} cuts down trees. However, our choice to work less may be facilitated by others who involuntarily work more. Policy proposals to minimize the unfair transfer of time wealth: (a) Internationally mandated and expanded Fair Trade to restructure the mining, textile and electronics industries. (b) Expanded labor unions. Time rich northern Europe has a considerably larger percentage of unionized citizens than time-starved nations. (c) Extending the right of paid sabbaticals from professional jobs to positions where people truly need the time off, such as miners and sanitation workers.},
	author = {Mark Cramer}
}
