Take Back Your Time : Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America.
The typical American worker puts in nine weeks more on the job than his or her European counterpart. The costs of this overwork are enormous, both personally and societally. This bracing collection of essays is both a wide-ranging analysis of the phenomenon and a blueprint for change. With contribut...
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San Francisco :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Introduction; Part One: Overwork in America; 1 The (Even More) Overworked American; 2 An Issue for Everybody; 3 The Incredible Shrinking Vacation; 4 Forced Overtime in the Land of the Free; Part Two: Time is a Family Value; 5 Overscheduled Kids, Underconnected Families; 6 Recapturing Childhood; 7 What about Fluffy and Fido?; Part Three: The Cost to Civil Society; 8 Wasted Work, Wasted Time; 9 Time to be a Citizen; 10 Time and Crime; Part Four: Health Hazards; 11 An Hour a Day (Could Keep the Doctor Away); 12 The (Bigger) Picture of Health.
