TAKE BACK YOUR TIME - FIGHTING

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.

Preface
Introduction

Part One: Overwork in America
1 The Even More) Overworked American, Juliet Schor
2 An Issue for Everybody, Barbara Brandt
3 The Incredible Shrinking Vacation, Joe Robinson
4 Forced Overtime in the Land of the Free, Lonnie Golden

Part Two: Time is a Family Value
5 Overscheduled Kids, Underconnected Families, William Doherty and Barbara Carlson
6 Recapturing Childhood, Betsy Taylor
7 What about Fluffy and Fido?, Camilla H. Fox

Part Three: The Cost to Civil Society,
8 Wasted Work, Wasted Time, Jonathan Rowe
9 Time to be a Citizen, Paul Loeb
10 Time and Crime, Charles Reasons

Part Four: Health Hazard
11 An Hour a Day Could Keep the Doctor Away, Suzanne Schweiker
12 The (Bigger) Picture of Health, Stephen Bezruchka

Part Five: Environmental Consequences
13 Haste Makes Waste, David Wann
14 The Speed Trap, Robert Bernstein
15 On Time, Happiness, and Ecological Footprints, Tim Kasser and Kirk Warren Brown

Part Six: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
16 When We Had the Time, Benjamin Hunnicutt
17 Can America Learn from Shabbat?, Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Part Seven: Taking Back Your Time
18 Enough--the Time Cost of Stuff, Vicki Robin
19 The Simple Solution, Cece Andrews

Part Eight: Workplace Solutions
20 Jobs to Share, Carol Ostrom
21 A New Bottom Line, Irene Myers, Larry Gaffin, and Barbara Schramm
22 Working Retired, Beverly Goldberg
23 A Case for Sabbaticals, Bob Sessions and Lori Erickson
24 America Needs a Break, Karen Nussbaum, Christine Owens, and Carol Eickert
25 It Would be Good for Business Too, Sharon Lobel

Part Nine: Rethinking Patterns of Culture
26 Recipes for Relief, Anna Lappe
27 Time by Design, Linda Breen Pierce

Part Ten: Changing Public Policy
28 Europe's Work-Time Alternatives, Anders Hayden
29 A Policy Agenda for Taking Back Time, Jerome Segal
30 What's an Economy For?, David Korten
Appendices
A. Organizing Take Back Your Time Day in Your Community, Sean Sheehan
B. Teach-Ins and Study Circles, Cecile Andrews
C. How to Pitch (not Place) a Story, Eric Brown
References
About the Authors
Art Credits