Part XIII of the Treaty of Versailles, on which the ILO Constitution is based, specifically recognized that the regulation of hours of work, including the establishment of a maximum working day and week, as among the measures that were urgently needed for the improvement of the conditions of labour prevailing at the time. [...] Since that time, working time has remained an important focus of the ILO’s work; indeed, one might even think of working time as a kind of “bridge” between the world of work at the time of the ILO’s founding and the fast-paced world of work in the 21st Century. [...] Average number of hours of work 11 2.3.1 Long hours of work 13 2.3.2 Long hours of work by employment status 15 2.3.3 Long hours of work, by economic sector and occupation 17 2.3.4 Evolution of long hours of work during the COVID-19 pandemic 20 2.3.5 S hort hours of work, very short hours of work and time-related underemployment 22 2.3.6 Short and very short hours of work, by employment status 28. [...] While the traditional concern regarding regular long hours of work and their effects dating from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution remains a problem in some parts of the world and among some groups of workers, the phenomenon of short hours of work – often referred to as “part-time work” – has emerged as an issue in other parts of the world and among other groups of workers. [...] The proportion of men with long hours of work is higher than that of women in all these sectors, particularly the transport and communications sectors, in which the proportion of men with long hours of work is more than double that of the proportion of women with long hours of work.
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