Worked Over

How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream

By: Jamie K. McCallum

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Hardcover | 24 September 2020 | Edition Number 1

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An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality

Americans work too long and too hard. Average annual work hours declined for a century through hard-fought labor-movement victories, but since 1975 they've increased by 13 percent. Worked Over traces the varied reasons why our lives became tethered to work and describes how we might gain a greater say over our work time-and build a more just society in the process. Popular discussions of overwork typically focus on striving 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 have increased the most, while their working lives remain precarious and unpredictable. What's needed is not individual solutions but collective struggle, and throughout Worked Over McCallum recounts the inspiring stories of those battling capitalism today to win back control of their time.

About the Author

Jamie K. McCallum is professor of sociology at Middlebury College. His first book, Global Unions, Local Power , won the American Sociological Association's prize for the best book on labor. His work has appeared in scholarly journals and popular outlets such as the Washington Post, Mother Jones, Dissent, and Jacobin. He lives in Weybridge, Vermont.

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"Worked Over examines an important, but little appreciated, aspect of America's out-of-control inequality: millions of Americans have scant say over when they work and how many hours they work. In this eminently readable, well-researched book, Jamie McCallum combines smart analysis, on-the-money anecdotes, and moving profiles of individual workers to explore the many ways that American workers are being squeezed by unfair, onerous work schedules."
Steven Greenhouse author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

"As America grew more unequal, most people's workloads just kept growing and growing - and there was little they could do about it. Worked Over helps us see what's going on and also how we might fight against it."
Bill McKibben author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

"Jamie McCallum's sharp and clarifying analysis links workers' freedom to control work time - and thus their lives - to our ability to have a functioning, genuine democracy. Worked Over underscores the need for workers to have significantly more power over the anti-worker decisions currently in the hands of the corporate elite."
Jane McAlevey author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

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