Over Work with Brigid Schulte & Glenda Blake
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ABOUT THE BOOK
From the New York Times bestselling author of Overwhelmed, a deeply reported exploration of why American work isn’t working and how our lives can be made more meaningful
Following Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte’s groundbreaking examination of time management and stress, the prize-winning journalist now turns her attention to the greatest culprit in America’s quality-of-life crisis: the way our economy and culture conceive of work. Americans across all demographics, industries, and socioeconomic levels report exhaustion, burnout, and the wish for more meaningful lives. This full-system failure in our structure of work affects everything from gender inequality to domestic stability, and it even shortens our lifespans.
Drawing on years of research, Schulte traces the arc of our discontent, from a time before the 1980s, when work was compatible with well-being and allowed a single earner to support a family, until today, with millions of people working multiple hourly jobs or in white-collar positions where no hours are ever off-duty. She casts a wide net in search of solutions, exploring the movement to institute a four-day workweek, introducing Japan’s Housewives Brigade—which demands legal protection for family time—and embedding with CEOs who are making the business case for humane conditions. And she demonstrates the power of a collective and creative demand for change, showing that work can be organized in an infinite number of ways that are good for humans and for business.
Fiercely argued and vividly told, rich with stories and informed by deep investigation, Over Work lays out a clear vision for ending our punishing grind and reclaiming leisure, joy, and meaning.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brigid Schulte is the author of the bestselling Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has Time and an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post, where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize. She is also director of the Better Life Lab, the work-life, gender equity, and family-supportive social policy program at the New America Foundation. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and two children.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Glenda Blake has close to 40 years of experience in human services and community engagement. She has spent a significant part of her career in executive leadership roles in public and private agencies in rural, suburban and urban settings. She has served as the Vice President of Programs and DEI Senior Advisor at a local nonprofit, Department Director of Family Services and Division Director of Aging Services in local public human service agencies. Glenda holds graduate degrees from Columbia University’s School of Social Work in NYC (MSW) and Virginia Tech’s Center for Public Administration and Policy in Blacksburg, VA (MPA). She also holds a BSW from Norfolk State University and is proud to have attended a Virginia HBCU. She has practiced at Harlem Hospital in NYC and the New York Urban League in Manhattan. Her work includes policy development, strategic planning, affordable housing supportive services, community development, human services administration and direct care practice. She currently works part-time as an adjunct professor for VCU’s School of Social Work.
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