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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure.

Monthly Labor Review | May 1, 1992 | Copyright

The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. By Juliet B. Schor. New York, Basic Books, 1992. 247 pp. $21.

Juliet B. Schor sees an overworked America, on the job and at home. Workers are putting in more hours per week and per year. Household technology has raised standards rather than expanding leisure.

The bulk of the responsibility is laid on employers, who have preferred to distribute productivity gains in wage increases rather than in hours reductions. Their motivation is twofold: to foster consumer demand for goods and services and to minimize…

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