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The overworked American : the unexpected decline of leisure / Juliet B. Schor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [New York, N.Y.] : Basic Books, c1991.Description: xvii, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0465054331
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/812/0973 20
LOC classification:
  • HD4904.6 .S36 1991
Contents:
1. The overworked American -- 2. Time squeeze: the extra month of work : Theories of the time squeeze ; Doing more for the paycheck ; More people working ; More hours of work ; The shrinking vacation ; The time squeeze at home ; Involuntary leisure: underemployment and unemployment -- 3. "A life at hard labor": capitalism and working hours : Capitalism and the erosion of leisure ; The daily wage and the expansion of worktime ; Piece rates: "under-pay makes over-work" ; Wage workers' rising hours ; The demands of mechanization ; Workplace of discipline and the employment rent ; The role of fringe benefits ; The salaried laborer's free hours ; The fight for shorter hours ; Business opposition ; The last major battle: the thirty-hour week ; Labor gives up the fight ; The rising hours of the postwar era -- 4. Overwork in the household : The constancy of housewives' hours ; The upgrading of standards and the expansion of services ; The Parkinson's law of housework: low-cost labor ; The perpetuation of domestic inefficiency ; Housework today and tomorrow -- 5. The insidious cycle of work-and-spend : Shop 'til you drop ; Work-and-spend is a middle-class affliction ; The creation of discontent ; Capitalism's squirrel cage ; The pitfalls of consumerism ; Causes of the work-and-spend cycle ; Assessing the neoclassical view ; The social nature of work-and-spend ; The perils of homo economicus -- 6. Exiting the squirrel cage : Breaking the work-and-spend cycle ; New incentives for employers ; Giving up future income for time off ; Inequalities of time ; Can America afford less work? ; Overcoming consumerism ; The value of leisure time ; Reclaiming leisure -- Appendix : A. The stability of postwar hours, 1948-1968 -- B. Comparison of our results with estimates from the Universities of Michigan and Maryland -- C. Method for estimating market hours -- D. Estimates of household hours.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-234) and index.

WAR, NEWBERY,

1. The overworked American -- 2. Time squeeze: the extra month of work : Theories of the time squeeze ; Doing more for the paycheck ; More people working ; More hours of work ; The shrinking vacation ; The time squeeze at home ; Involuntary leisure: underemployment and unemployment -- 3. "A life at hard labor": capitalism and working hours : Capitalism and the erosion of leisure ; The daily wage and the expansion of worktime ; Piece rates: "under-pay makes over-work" ; Wage workers' rising hours ; The demands of mechanization ; Workplace of discipline and the employment rent ; The role of fringe benefits ; The salaried laborer's free hours ; The fight for shorter hours ; Business opposition ; The last major battle: the thirty-hour week ; Labor gives up the fight ; The rising hours of the postwar era -- 4. Overwork in the household : The constancy of housewives' hours ; The upgrading of standards and the expansion of services ; The Parkinson's law of housework: low-cost labor ; The perpetuation of domestic inefficiency ; Housework today and tomorrow -- 5. The insidious cycle of work-and-spend : Shop 'til you drop ; Work-and-spend is a middle-class affliction ; The creation of discontent ; Capitalism's squirrel cage ; The pitfalls of consumerism ; Causes of the work-and-spend cycle ; Assessing the neoclassical view ; The social nature of work-and-spend ; The perils of homo economicus -- 6. Exiting the squirrel cage : Breaking the work-and-spend cycle ; New incentives for employers ; Giving up future income for time off ; Inequalities of time ; Can America afford less work? ; Overcoming consumerism ; The value of leisure time ; Reclaiming leisure -- Appendix : A. The stability of postwar hours, 1948-1968 -- B. Comparison of our results with estimates from the Universities of Michigan and Maryland -- C. Method for estimating market hours -- D. Estimates of household hours.