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Worked Over - How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream (Hardcover)
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Worked Over - How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream (Hardcover)
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Americans are overworked. After declining for a century through
hard-fought labor movement victories, average annual work hours
increased approximately 8 percent for all working adults from 1979
to 2016. In Worked Over, sociologist Jamie McCallum reveals how the
battle over time on the job has been central to conflicts over
capitalism from the beginning, how overwork is at the heart of the
inequities and injustices in America's economy today, and why
workers must fight to take control of the time they spend working.
From Amazon warehouses to Silicon Valley campuses, from late night
Uber deliveries to later night strip clubs, from factories in Ohio
to retail floors everywhere, McCallum explains how the contemporary
American workplace exploits workers' time and constrains their
lives. Whether it's the manager's stopwatch, the scheduling
algorithm's dispassionate authority, or our own internal clock that
pushes us because we're afraid of falling behind or losing our
jobs, ordinary people have lost much say over when and how much we
work. Work, more than anything else, dictates when we sleep, eat,
raise our kids, and live the rest of our lives. Popular discussions
of overwork tend to focus on striving professionals, but as
McCallum demonstrates, it's the hours of low-wage workers have
increased the most, and it's their working lives that remain the
most precarious and unpredictable in a service-oriented, on-demand
economy. What's needed is not individual solutions but collective
struggle. Throughout Worked Over, McCallum offers inspiring stories
of how the battle to win back control of time has been renewed
today by those most vulnerable to the capitalist society's
electronic whip. Combining the rigor of a scholar, the storytelling
of a journalist, and the vision of an activist, McCallum shows that
winning shorter hours will require a radical break from our current
political and economic system. Worked Over is an inside look at why
our lives became tethered to work -- and how we might regain a
greater say over our work time and build a more just society in the
process.
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