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[Bonus] Beyond An Economy of Work & Spend

7th September 2022 by Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

This content was published first in The Sunday Letters Journal: https://sundayletters.larrygmaguire.com/p/bonus-beyond-an-economy-of-work-and by Larry G. Maguire on Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:09:07 GMT

This is a bonus episode of Sunday Letters. If you’d like access to it, become a supporter of The Sunday Letters Journal.

This episode is a reading from a speech by Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, to students at Tilburg University in 1997 titled Beyond An Economy of Work & Spend. In this essay, Schor offers a detailed breakdown of why the capitalist promise of increased leisure time and fewer working hours has failed. In sum, instead of technological gains giving us more free time, it has been used to line the pockets of the elite few and extend the levels of debt workers are forced to endure through consumerism.

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I'm Larry G. Maguire, writer and work psychologist focusing on behaviour and performance in the workplacee. I publish the weekly Sunday Letters Journal and work with clients helping them find clarity and direction in work. > Get in touch with me here

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