Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America - Softcover

De Graaf, John

9781459626539: Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America

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ISBN 10: 1459626532 ISBN 13: 9781459626539

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

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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 contributions by such notable names as Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life, and David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, this book shows what ordinary citizens can do to restore balance to themselves and their communities. Take Back Your Time is the official handbook for Take Back Your Time Day, a national event rallying support for reclaiming a proper work - life balance.

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"Take Back Your Time is a call to action for all of US who believe that the aim of a society is to benefit its people, not to maximize profits."
--John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO

"This book is not about time, really; it's about power. It's about realizing our own power to be in control, not slaves to inexorable economic forces. Read this book and take a long deep sigh of relief."
--Frances Moore Lappe, author of Hope's Edge and Diet for a Small Planet

"Take Back Your Time documents how Americans hurried, harried lifestyles use more natural resources, generate more waste, and leave less time to care for the Earth we all share. The world and its inhabitants would breathe easier indeed if we were to slow our breathless pace."
--Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day founder, former U.S. Sen and author of Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise

..".makes a compelling case for the direct relationship between overwork and a host of critical social problems from physical and emotional stress to overconsumption of resources, environmental degradation and declining levels of civic participation. A tour de force!"
--Al Gedicks, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse