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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: De Graaf, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler, ©2003.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Hours of labor > United States.
Quality of life > United States.
Work and family > United States.
Horaires de travail > États-Unis.
Qualité de la vie > États-Unis.
Travail et familles > États-Unis.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Beauty & Grooming.
REFERENCE > Personal & Practical Guides.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Time Management.
Hours of labor
Quality of life
Work and family
Arbeidstijd.
Werkbelasting.
Kwaliteit van het bestaan.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The (even more) overworked American / Juliet Schor
  • Issue for everybody / Barbara Brandt
  • Incredible shrinking vacation / Joe Robinson
  • Forced overtime in the land of the free / Lonnie Golden
  • Overscheduled kids, underconnected families / William Doherty and Barbara Carlson
  • Recapturing childhood / Betsy Taylor
  • What about Fluffy and Fido? / Camilla H. Fox
  • Wasted work, wasted time / Jonathan Rowe
  • Time to be a citizen / Paul Loeb
  • Time and crime / Charles Reasons
  • An hour a day (could keep the doctor away) / Suzanne Schweikert.
  • The (bigger) picture of health / Stephen Bezruchka
  • Haste makes waste / David Wann
  • The sped trap / Robert Bernstein
  • On time, happiness, and ecological footprints / Tim Kasser and Kirk Warren Brown
  • When we had the time / Benjamin Hunnicutt
  • Can America learn from Shabbat? / Rabbi Arthur Waskow
  • Enough
  • the time cost of stuff / Vicki Robin
  • The simple solution / Cecile Andrews
  • Jobs to share / Carol Ostrom
  • A new bottom line / Irene Myers, Larry Gaffin, and Barbara Schramm
  • Working retired / Beverly Goldberg.
  • A case for sabbaticals / Bob Sessions and Lori Erickson
  • America needs a break / Karen Nussbaum, Christine Owens, and Carol Eickert
  • It would be good for business too / Sharon Lobel
  • Recipes for relief / Anna Lappé
  • Time by design / Linda Breen Pierce
  • Europe's work-time alternatives / Anders Hayden
  • A policy agenda for taking back time / Jerome Segal
  • What's an economy for? / David Korten
  • Organizing Take Back Your Time Day in your community / Sean Sheehan
  • Teach-ins and study circles / Cecile Andrews.
  • How to pitch (not place) a story / Eric Brown.

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