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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
The Overworked American The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
Author: Juliet B. Schor
ISBN-13: 9780465054343
ISBN-10: 046505434X
Publication Date: 2/1993
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 9 ratings
Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1
Interesting reading, but would be more so if there were not burdened down with so many statistics.
Being a bestseller, one would think this would have been a "call-to-arms" to bring the unions back, bud sadly over fifteen years later the lack of time off has decreased even more. I know at my job it is less than one day then even last year, & that they wanted to take Independence day away from us this year (& already have it on the agenda to so do next year). Is this what our country has come to---that we cannot even have the holiday off that was to celebrate this nation's freedom???
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Very informative book. I learned a lot about how people used to live - not what I expected. Good information, makes you stop and think about how much time you spend working and wonder why!!!
reviewed The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure on + 418 more book reviews
Interesting reading, but would be more so if there were not burdened down with so many statistics.
Being a bestseller, one would think this would have been a "call-to-arms" to bring the unions back, bud sadly over fifteen years later the lack of time off has decreased even more. I know at my job it is less than one day then even last year, & that they wanted to take Independence day away from us this year (& already have it on the agenda to so do next year). Is this what our country has come to---that we cannot even have the holiday off that was to celebrate this nation's freedom???
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Explains a lot about why we all feel so harried today.