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Loading... Married to the Job : Why We Live to Work and What We Can Do About Itby Ilene Philipson
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book was in the library at work and I picked it up. I found it useful in pointing out how people fall into the trap of being more commited to their job than the rest of their lives. It caused me to stop and think in depth to the level I am commited and what I want to do about it. However, it offers little advice. I think the entire list of suggestions were contained on two pages. The rest was a plug for therapy. I was hoping for something a little more helpful. (  )DanStratton | Dec 9, 2007 |   This book contains a compelling, though depressing, analysis of the current state of our society: The workplace has become our sole source for community, friendship, and meaning, argues Philipson, thus endangering our well-being when things go wrong at work. She points out that the work-relationship is more a one-sided contract: the employee is supposed to give her all, in exchange for money but not in exchange for the security he is seeking. The book falls short in providing solutions, which is consistent with Philipson's assessment that this is a societal issue, rather than an individual issue. She does provide a couple pages of guidelines for avoiding being married to the job, argues for the usefulness of support groups, but ultimately, she shows that it is our society's values that drive our unhealthy connection to work. So, her book is more a call for action that a solution. (  )RachelAB | Dec 9, 2007 | 0.023 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0743215788, Hardcover)Work is not "life," we tell ourselves. Yet too many of us stay at work till midnight and hunger for our bosses' approval. We socialize with colleagues and supervisors. We might even wear the company's logo and make its slogan our mantra. And when something goes wrong--when we're laid off, transferred, or simply chewed out--ourworlds fall apart. We are a nation obsessed with work. In this provocative and chilling book, clinical psychologist Ilene Philipson explores the idea of the overworked American from a startlingly new perspective. She doesn't believe, as some social commentators have suggested, that we work to buy fancy toys and to keep up with the Joneses. She's convinced that, more and more, life outside work seems colorless and unfulfilling, and that it is our jobs that generate feeling of self-worth and the sense that we're connected to something larger than ourselves. For too many of us, work has become the closest thing to family and religion we have--the core of our emotional and spiritual lives. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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