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About the Book

A look at the impact of time famine in America and how ordinary citizens can turn things around to achieve a more balanced life for themselves. 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, Take 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.

Table of Contents:
Media; Part I: Overwork In America; An Issue For Everybody; The (Even More) Overworked American; The Incredible Shrinking Vacation; Forced Overtime In The Land Of The Free; Two Jobs And An Empty Pot; Part Ii: Time Is A Family Value; Overscheduled Kids, Underconnected Families; Recapturing Childhood; What About Fluffy And Fido; Part Iii: The Cost To Civil Society; Reclaiming Community Time: The Work We Really Need To Do - Time To Be A Citizen; Time And Crime; Part Iv: Health Hazards; An Hour A Day (Could Keep The Doctor Away; The (Bigger) Picture Of Health; Part V: Environmental Consequences Of The Hurried Life; Haste Makes Waste; The Speed Trap; On Time, Happiness And A Smaller Footprint; Part Vi: Historical And Cultural Perspectives; When We Had The Time; Can America Learn From Shabbat? Part Vii: Taking Back Your Time; Enough - The Time Cost Of Stuff; The Simple Solution; Overcoming The Fear Of Leisure - Part Viii: Workplace Solutions; Jobs To Share; A New Bottom Line; Working Retired; A Case For Sabbaticals; America Needs A Break; It Would Be Good For Business Too - Part Ix: Rethinking Patterns Of Culture; Recipes For Change; Time By Design; Part X: Changing Public Policy; Europe's Work-Time Alternatives; A Policy Agenda For Taking Back Time; What's An Economy For. Resources For Taking Action; Organizing Take Back Your Time Day In Your Community how To Do A Teach-In Or A Speak-Out; How To Reach Your Local

About the Author :
John de Graaf is an independent producer of award-winning television documentaries, including Affluenza and Escape from Affluenza, and is the national coordinator of Take Back Your Time Day.

Review :
“Take Back Your Time is a call to action for all of US who believe that the aim of a society is to benefit its people, not to maximize profits.” --John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO “This book is not about time, really; it's about power. It's about realizing our own power to be in control, not slaves to inexorable economic forces. Read this book and take a long deep sigh of relief.” --Frances Moore Lappe, author of Hope's Edge and Diet for a Small Planet “Take Back Your Time documents how Americans hurried, harried lifestyles use more natural resources, generate more waste, and leave less time to care for the Earth we all share. The world and its inhabitants would breathe easier indeed if we were to slow our breathless pace.” –-Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day founder, former U.S. Sen and author of Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise “…makes a compelling case for the direct relationship between overwork and a host of critical social problems from physical and emotional stress to overconsumption of resources, environmental degradation and declining levels of civic participation. A tour de force!” --Al Gedicks, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781576752456
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler
  • Publisher Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1576752453
  • Publisher Date: 31 Aug 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 390 gr


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