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We have no time for each other, and our social institutions have no time for us. Menzies (Canadian studies and women's studies, Carleton U.) describes how stress and overwork trashes the individual body and mind, creating everything from sleepless, workaholic and nearly rabid adults to children on a variety of drugs for attention deficit disorders. She also describes how individual crises in stress and timelessness lead to societal stress, and how that stress returns to slap down the individual. She urges individuals to reclaim a feeling for themselves, and to work toward a society that respects the needs of individuals for their own time. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Everyone agrees: there aren’t enough hours in the day. But what happened to the promise that technology would provide more leisure time? Instead, everyone is working harder and longer than they did 15 years ago, squeezed and scattered and stressed to the point of burnout. Coping with the dizzying pace of a society drowning in information overload, it’s a wonder anyone functions normally.Building on the success of Whose Brave New World? and Fastforward and Out of Control, Heather Menzies takes readers on a sobering tour of this troubling phenomenon, highlighting personal stories from a workaholic father and a woman suffering from chronic fatigue. Menzies details the root causes of the frantic quest to speed everything up; looks at the especially difficult situation for those such as teachers, nurses, and social workers who are responsible for social well being; and offers commonsense solutions to a problem affecting all of society.
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