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Title: Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor ISBN: 0-465-05434-X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book for our times
Comment: Juliet Schor show us not only are we working longer than anytime in the past 50 years, we are trying to squeeze more activities into our days. The important things, like spending time with our families, helping with school work, cooking a decent homecooked meal, are sacrificed because if we try to go home at 5p.m. we are considered slackers. But it is the workers' fault as much as the employer, because we need the overtime pay to pay off our credit card debt, to send our kids to private schools, to pay for the new SUV and Minivan and the suburban dreamhouse. It's a ratrace and we are the rats and we wouldnt dream of sitting it out.
Rating: 5
Summary: True, Yet Contrary to the American Mentality
Comment: Juliet Schor presents many balanced and interesting facts, stats, and trends in the past and present individual and collective work environment in the United States. Do most Americans realize this or even think about it?....I've met only a few who do. Since World War II worker productivity per capita has more than doubled. And, the hours worked has increased so steadily that work hours will be at the levels of what they were in the 1920s. The average American takes 12 days off per year, which is the lowest in the industrialized world. Yet Americans are in more personal debt than at any time at our history. Most today, will work into their 70s as the thing called retirement is not possible for most.
Question: is it worth it? The Puritanical work-consume-work-consume-die mentality is being questioned by some Americans, now that their investments, pensions, and 401-Ks have lost the principal to allow them to live and do what they have always been wanting to do. This book may seem contrary to the way most Americans have been raised and advised throughout their lives.
Do Americans have time to reflect, think, relax, and pursue anything to their liking? The answer depends on who you are, so ask yourself that question. This is a relevant book for a very relevant topic.
Rating: 4
Summary: easier said than done
Comment: I disagree with the reviewer who blasts Schor's accusations against corporate America.
"Get a job you like and live within your means," he advises.
Trouble is, there's something very peculiar about the way the job market is set up. As a bachelor's degreed worker, looking for a moderate way job, I've found full-time (PLUS - emphasis on the plus) jobs at $50K and full-time jobs at $25K, but where the heck are the half-time jobs at $25K?
No where to be found.
"Face-time" requirements and inflexibility on the part of most companies thwart the moderation strategy.
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Title: The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need by Juliet B. Schor ISBN: 0060977582 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor, David Horsey, Scott Simon, John de Graaf ISBN: 1576751996 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: In Action: Retaining Your Best Employees by Jack J. Phillips, Ronald L. Jacobs ISBN: 1562863207 Publisher: American Society for Training & Development Pub. Date: 23 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life by Joe Robinson ISBN: 0399528504 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Harvard Business Review on Work and Life Balance (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) by Harvard Business School Press, Harvard Business Review ISBN: 1578513286 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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