https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Liberation-Through-Vacation https://internationalviewpoint.org/Liberation-Through-Vacation 2015-06-17T06:22:16Z text/html en Michel Husson, Stephanie Treillet France <p>Reducing working hours is more than a path to full employment. It could help millions live more fulfilling lives. Since its introduction at the end of the 1990s, France's statutory thirty-five-hour workweek has been a source of ongoing controversy. Originally developed as a job creation measure by the then newly elected “plural left” government of Lionel Jospin, the proposal for a mandatory cut in working time for private-sector employees generated such a furious backlash from business that its implementation (via the two Aubry Laws, named after Labor Minister Martine Aubry) led to the wholesale reorganization of France's main employers' lobby.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV485-June-2015-" rel="directory">IV485 - June 2015</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-France-+" rel="tag">France</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Women-s-oppression-in-globalization https://internationalviewpoint.org/Women-s-oppression-in-globalization 2004-03-17T00:00:00Z text/html en Stephanie Treillet Women <p>The existence of women's oppression pre-dates not only globalization, but also capitalism itself. Moreover, due to its specific characteristics, the consequences that globalization exerts on it are not a foregone or one-sided conclusion. Globalization implies an unequal and different extension of capitalist production relations, in the north and the south alike. Today, women are at the heart of this process. To grasp its complexity, we must review the specific nature of gender oppression, and the particular means by which it interplays with the capitalist mode of production.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV357-March-2004-" rel="directory">IV357 - March 2004</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Women-+" rel="tag">Women</a>