Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per yeara dramatic spurt that has hit everybody:...
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This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per yeara dramatic spurt that has hit everybody: men and women, professionals as well as low-paid workers. Why are weunlike every other industrialized Western nationrepeatedly ”choosing” money over time? And what can we do to get off the treadmill?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780465054343 (046505434X)
Publish date: January 31st 1993
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Clear, lucid sociology showing how the personal is political.
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