| Worked Over: How Round-The-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream Contributor(s): McCallum, Jamie K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1541618343 ISBN-13: 9781541618343 Publisher: Basic Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: September 2020 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Dewey: 331.257 |
| LCCN: 2020014358 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9.6" L (1.05 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality. Most Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules. Work hours declined for a century through hard-fought labor-movement victories, but they've increased significantly since the seventies. Worked Over traces the varied reasons why our lives became tethered to a new rhythm of work, and describes how we might gain a greater say over our labor time -- and build a more just society in the process. Popular discussions typically focus on overworked professionals. But as Jamie K. McCallum demonstrates, from Amazon warehouses to Rust Belt factories to California's gig economy, it's the hours of low-wage workers that are the most volatile and precarious -- and the most subject to crises. What's needed is not individual solutions but collective struggle, and throughout Worked Over McCallum recounts the inspiring stories of those battling today's capitalism to win back control of their time. |
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