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

Publication subTitle ：Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America

Author： de Graaf John  

Publisher： Berrett Koehler‎

Publication year： 2003

E-ISBN: 9781605096384

Subject： F273 Enterprise Production Management

Keyword： 企业生产管理

Language： ENG

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Description

Forget oil or gold time is the most precious commodity in America today. Americans have less free time than anyone else in the industrialized world. In fact, modern Americans work longer hours than medieval peasants Here, well known experts and writers explore the effects of overwork, over-scheduling, time pressure and stress on our health, relationships, children, the environment, and more. These renowned authors come together to support a national movement to Take Back Your Time, and they propose personal corporate, and legislative solutions.

Take Back Your Time is the official handbook of the national movement behind Take Back Your Time Day. Ultimately, lake Back Your Time Day organizers plan to institute public policies that put work in its rightful place and allow us all to live richer, fuller, more well-rounded lives.

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part One: Overwork in America

1 The (Even More) Overworked American

2 An Issue for Everybody

3 The Incredible Shrinking Vacation

4 Forced Overtime in the Land of the Free

Part Two: Time is a Family Value

5 Overscheduled Kids, Underconnected Families

6 Recapturing Childhood

7 What about Fluffy and Fido?

Part Three: The Cost to Civil Society

8 Wasted Work, Wasted Time

9 Time to be a Citizen

10 Time and Crime

Part Four: Health Hazards

11 An Hour a Day (Could Keep the Doctor Away)

12 The (Bigger) Picture of Health

Part Five: Environmental Consequences

13 Haste Makes Waste

14 The Speed Trap

15 On Time, Happiness, and Ecological Footprints

Part Six: Historical and Cultural Perspectives

16 When We Had the Time

17 Can America Learn from Shabbat?

Part Seven: Taking Back Your Time

18 Enough—the Time Cost of Stuff

19 The Simple Solution

Part Eight: Workplace Solutions

20 Jobs to Share

21 A New Bottom Line

22 Working Retired

23 A Case for Sabbaticals

24 America Needs a Break

25 It Would be Good for Business Too

Part Nine: Rethinking Patterns of Culture

26 Recipes for Relief

27 Time by Design

Part Ten: Changing Public Policy

28 Europe’s Work-Time Alternatives

29 A Policy Agenda for Taking Back Time

30 What’s an Economy For?

Appendices

A. Organizing Take Back Your Time Day in Your Community

B. Teach-Ins and Study Circles

C. How to Pitch (not Place) a Story

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