The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure — Who Gets the Productivity Dividend?
Productivity can be converted into more goods, more income, or more time. The outcome is not determined by technology alone.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor as our lens, this episode investigates why rising productivity did not automatically produce shorter working lives for Americans.
Schor argues that labor-market incentives favor long-hour employment while workers have comparatively little opportunity to exchange future earnings for additional leisure. Her…
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