Work time reduction in a degrowth context: for the North or for all?

In this paper I argue that focusing on work time reduction as a shared interest between global North and global South socio-environmental movements would contribute to increase sympathy for degrowth in the global South. In order to achieve that, the first challenge is to coherently incorporate work time reduction in the South into the degrowth framework. Currently in academic literature, most of the calls for work time reduction in a degrowth context focus on the global North and disregard the global South. As an attempt to contribute to this matter, I explore some of the limits and premises of different positions found in the academic literature about work time reduction from a degrowth perspective, point to some contradictions and sketch some recommendations on how to overcome them.