The Overworked America: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure

Juliet Schor

The Overworked America: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group
Country
United States
Published
24 March 1993
Pages
272
ISBN
9780465054343

The Overworked America: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure

Juliet Schor

This pathbreaking book documents for the first time the unanticipated decline in leisure both at work and in the home over the last twenty years and explains why Americans enjoy less leisure today than at any other time since the end of World War II.. 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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