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Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
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Take Back Your Time is the official handbook for TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY, a national event. Organizers have enlisted the support of colleges, universities, religious organizations, labor unions, businesses, activist groups, and non-profit organizations to create events that will take place across the country, calling attention to the ways overwork and lack of time affect us-at home, in our workplaces, and in our communities-and to inspire a movement to take back our time.
In Take Back Your Time, well-known experts in the fields of health, family therapy and policy, community and civic involvement, the environment, and other fields examine the problems of overwork, over-scheduling, time pressure and stress and propose personal, corporate and legislative solutions. This book shows how wide-ranging the impacts of time famine in our society are, and what ordinary citizens can do to turn things around and win a more balanced life for themselves and their children.
In Take Back Your Time, well-known experts in the fields of health, family therapy and policy, community and civic involvement, the environment, and other fields examine the problems of overwork, over-scheduling, time pressure and stress and propose personal, corporate and legislative solutions. This book shows how wide-ranging the impacts of time famine in our society are, and what ordinary citizens can do to turn things around and win a more balanced life for themselves and their children.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The main assertion made is simple: Americans work more than needed and much more than most of the rest of the world does. In return, we tend to live more stressful, less happy lives. This book explores ways that business men and women can fight off the cultural norm of overworking, and what that additional time can be used for when many people derive significant meaning and value from what they do.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I have a real compulsion about these types of books that suggest that my state of overtiredness and my consumer spending habits are a result of "the system" rather than me -- but that also give me suggestions on how to combat these problems. Ask me about "Not Buying It" by Judith Levine. Or Oprah's Debt Diet. Or anything about voluntary simplicity. I enjoyed this, and it was a good collection of essays (particularly the work of Juliet Schor, who wrote "The Overworked American" and "The Overspent American", two excellent books). It didn't tell me anything I haven't read elsewhere, though. And opposed to Levine's book, which I found myself compulsively reading over and over--as if it were scripture, for god's sake--I found that I wasn't that excited about anything here. Maybe, much like other types of self-help literature, writing on the "simpler life," doesn't lend itself to breaking new ground, but rather repeating common sense.
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