The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure

Interesting reading, but would be more so if there were not burdened down with so many statistics.
Being a bestseller, one would think this would have been a "call-to-arms" to bring the unions back, bud sadly over fifteen years later the lack of time off has decreased even more. I know at my job it is less than one day then even last year, & that they wanted to take Independence day away from us this year (& already have it on the agenda to so do next year). Is this what our country has come to---that we cannot even have the holiday off that was to celebrate this nation's freedom???

This book now 20 years old seems especially timely in the current depression era that seems to have no end. In addition to the lack of leisure are the facts of unemployment and the well known now statistic that adjusting for inflation, wages have fallen in the past 2 decades. The relation between work and consumer goods is especially good.

Clear, lucid sociology showing how the personal is political.

personal copy donated 2025