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? 046505434x the Overworked American : the Unexpected Decline of Leisure
- ISBN10 0786725257
- ISBN13 9780786725250
- Publish Date 5 August 2008 (first published 3 March 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Basic Books
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 272
- Language English