Personman - Latest Comments on Berry on work http://personman.com/?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 dan [Member] in response to: Berry on work Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:33:34 +0000 [Member] c1233@http://personman.com/ <p>I hadn&#8217;t thought of it in terms of more people working and more hours per week per family. How odd to spend more time in work in order to get things that are supposed to be timesavers. Especially if the work we&#8217;re cutting out is more pleasant than the work we&#8217;re adding.</p> I hadn’t thought of it in terms of more people working and more hours per week per family. How odd to spend more time in work in order to get things that are supposed to be timesavers. Especially if the work we’re cutting out is more pleasant than the work we’re adding.

]]> http://personman.com/berry_on_work#c1233 Heath [Visitor] in response to: Berry on work Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:37:48 +0000 Heath [Visitor] c1232@http://personman.com/ <p>I found this in the American Sociological Association Newsletter</p> <p>&#8220;For married couples, the combined work week has increased from an average of about 53 hours in 1970 to 63 hours in 2000. The explanation for this increase in work hours, given that the individual person’s work week has not changed much, is that 30 years ago half of all married families had only a male breadwinner. By 2000, this group sunk to one quarter. The two-earner family put in close to 82 working hours in 2000 compared to 78 hours in 1970.&#8221;<br /> <a href="http://www.asanet.org/media/timewarp.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.asanet.org/media/timewarp.html</a></p> <p>I am aware that this is not definitive, but it&#8217;s all I have time for right now. (The weather&#8217;s great for gardening today)<br /> The truth is that we spend time working so we can afford to buy and operate meachines and gizmos of all kinds. Human beings are, I think, in the service of machines, and not the other way around. </p> I found this in the American Sociological Association Newsletter

“For married couples, the combined work week has increased from an average of about 53 hours in 1970 to 63 hours in 2000. The explanation for this increase in work hours, given that the individual person’s work week has not changed much, is that 30 years ago half of all married families had only a male breadwinner. By 2000, this group sunk to one quarter. The two-earner family put in close to 82 working hours in 2000 compared to 78 hours in 1970.”
http://www.asanet.org/media/timewarp.html

I am aware that this is not definitive, but it’s all I have time for right now. (The weather’s great for gardening today)
The truth is that we spend time working so we can afford to buy and operate meachines and gizmos of all kinds. Human beings are, I think, in the service of machines, and not the other way around.

]]> http://personman.com/berry_on_work#c1232 dan [Member] in response to: Berry on work Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:14:38 +0000 [Member] c1230@http://personman.com/ <p>Yes.</p> Yes.

]]> http://personman.com/berry_on_work#c1230 Heath [Visitor] in response to: Berry on work Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:24:13 +0000 Heath [Visitor] c1226@http://personman.com/ <p>Are most people working fewer hours now than they did before the information age?</p> Are most people working fewer hours now than they did before the information age?

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