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What Work Means
What Work Means goes beyond
the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work
as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of
Americans as mere workaholics, Claudia Strauss presents a more
nuanced perspective. While some live to work, others prefer a
diligent 9-to-5 work ethic that is conscientious but preserves time
for other interests. Her participants often enjoyed their jobs
without making work the focus of their life. These findings
challenge laborist views of waged work as central to a good life as
well as post-work theories that treat work solely as exploitative
and soul-crushing.
Drawing upon the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from
a wide range of occupations, from day laborers to corporate
managers, both immigrant and native-born, Strauss explores how
diverse Americans think about the place of work in a good life,
gendered meanings of breadwinning, accepting financial support from
family, friends, and the state, and what the ever-elusive American
dream means to them. By considering how post-Fordist unemployment
experiences diverge from joblessness earlier, What Work
Means paves the way for a historically and culturally informed
discussion of work meanings in a future of teleworking, greater
automation, and increasing nonstandard employment.
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Relationship between teachers’ workaholic characteristics and emotional exhaustion – the mediating role of work-family conflict and work efficacy and the moderating role of teaching age
This paper expands on the previous research on the relationship between workaholic characteristics and individual emotional exhaustion, and studies the influence of workaholic characteristics on emotional exhaustion and its internal mechanism from the new perspectives of utility theory and conservation of resources theory. Based on a questionnaire survey of 3892 rural teachers in China, this paper first constructs a model of the influence of workaholic characteristics on emotional exhaustion, and finds that the two have the stable quadratic relationship. Workaholic characteristics will reduce emotional exhaustion, but when it exceeds the certain level, workaholic characteristics will no longer reduce emotional exhaustion or even aggravate emotional exhaustion, and moderate workaholic characteristics will minimize emotional exhaustion. The increase in teaching age slows down the threshold of the “U-shaped” curve between workaholic characteristics and emotional exhaustion. By constructing a moderation mediation model, it is found that work-family conflict and work efficacy partially mediate the relationship between workaholic characteristics and rural teachers’ emotional exhaustion, and work-family conflict and work-efficacy promote and inhibit the effects of workaholic characteristics on rural teachers’ emotional exhaustion, respectively. Moreover, teaching age negatively moderated the indirect effect of rural teachers’ workaholic characteristics on emotional exhaustion through work-family conflict, and novice teachers in rural areas were more susceptible to the emotional exhaustion caused by work-family conflict.
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The gift
Workaholic executive Lou Steffen shows an uncharacteristic burst of generosity towards Gabe, a homeless man who always seems to be in two places at once. Can Gabe help Lou fix what's broken before it's too late?
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Chained to the Desk (Third Edition)
Americans love a hard worker. The worker who toils eighteen-hour days and eats meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a combination of respect and awe. But for many, this lifestyle leads to family problems, a decline in work productivity, and ultimately to physical and mental collapse.Intended for anyone touched by what Robinson calls the best-dressed problem of the twenty-first century,Chained to the Deskprovides an inside look at workaholism's impact on those who live and work with work addicts - partners, spouses, children, and colleagues - as well as the appropriate techniques for clinicians who treat them.Originally published in 1998, this groundbreaking book from best-selling author and widely respected family therapist Bryan E. Robinson was the first comprehensive portrait of the workaholic. In this new and fully updated third edition, Robinson draws on hundreds of case reports from his own original research and years of clinical practice. The agonies of workaholism have grown all the more challenging in a world where the computer, cell phone, and iPhone allow twenty-four-hour access to the office, even on weekends and from vacation spots. Adult children of workaholics describe their childhood pain and the lifelong legacies they still carry, and the spouses or partners of workaholics reveal the isolation and loneliness of their vacant relationships. Employers and business colleagues discuss the cost to the company when workaholism dominates the workplace.Chained to the Deskboth counsels and consoles. It provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover.Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a psychotherapist in private practice. He is the author of over 35 books, includingThe Smart Guide to Managing Stressand his debut novel,Limestone Gumption. He hosted the PBS documentary,Overdoing It: When Work Rules Your Lifeand has appeared on20/20, Good Morning America, WorldNews Tonight, NBC Nightly News, andThe Early Show.
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Professor Chandra follows his bliss : a novel
\"P.R. Chandrasekhar, the celebrated professor of economics at Cambridge, is at a turning point. He has sacrificed his family for his career, but his conservative brand of economics is no longer in fashion, and yet again he has lost the Nobel Prize to a rival. His wife has left him for a free spirited West Coast psychiatrist and relocated to Boulder, Colorado. His son, a capitalist guru with a cult following, mocks his father's life work; his middle daughter, the apple of his eye, has become a Marxist and refuses to speak to him; and his youngest daughter is struggling through her teenage years with the help of psychedelic drugs. And then, the final indignity: He is hit by a bicycle and forced to confront his mortality. Professor Chandra's American doctor instructs him to change his workaholic ways and \"follow his bliss\"--and so he does, right to the coast of California, and into the heart of his dysfunctional family. Witty, charming, and all too human, Professor Chandra's path to enlightenment will enchant and uplift readers from all walks of life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Negative (Workaholic) Emotions and Emotional Exhaustion: Might Job Autonomy Have Played a Strategic Role in Workers with Responsibility during the Covid-19 Crisis Lockdown?
Decision-making autonomy may have played a crucial role in protecting, or on the contrary, intensifying the onset of negative psychological outcomes for workers with roles with responsibilities during the lockdown due to the Covid-19 crisis. The present study analyzed the emotional dimension of workaholism in relation to emotional exhaustion, considering decision-making autonomy as a moderator of this relationship, in a sample of 101 managers and freelancers in the middle of the lockdown in Italy (early April 2020). Results showed that the relationship between negative (workaholic) emotions and emotional exhaustion was moderated by decision-making autonomy and this moderation differed for managers and freelancers. In particular, the results showed that in the target of managers high levels of negative emotional experiences related to workaholism and low decision-making autonomy are associated with higher levels emotional exhaustion, while high levels of emotional experiences linked to workaholism and high decision-making autonomy produced significantly lower levels of emotional exhaustion. On the contrary, low levels of job autonomy were associated to higher level of emotional exhaustion when negative (workaholic) emotions were low for the freelancers. Limitations are related to the limited sample and the cross-sectional nature of the study. Practical implications lie in considering decision-making autonomy as a double-edged sword, such that when low it could be a risk for managers and when high it could be a risk for freelancers.
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Worked to death
Worked to death: Cases of karoshi -- death from overwork -- more than doubled in Japan last year, from 143 to...
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Mismatch in working hours and workaholism in permanent waged workers
A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate whether working hours mismatch is associated with workaholism.
This study used the data from the 17th wave (2014) of the nationwide Korean Labor and Income Panel Study. Workaholism was evaluated using the Workaholism Analysis Questionnaire. The final study involved 3157 subjects who answered questions regarding both workaholism and working hours mismatch. To identify the association between working hours mismatch and workaholism according to weekly working hours, a stratification analysis was conducted by dividing the number of working hours/week into 3 groups (≤40 h, 41-59 h, and ≥60 h). The odds ratios were calculated using a multiple logistic regression model, which was adjusted for potential confounders.
The workers working more hours than desired showed the greatest frequency of workaholism. As regards workaholism, in all weekly working hours groups, the odds ratios of the group working more hours than desired were 4.28, 95% CI: 2.29-7.99 (≥40 h), 2.14, 95% CI: 1.34-3.43 (41-59 h), 3.40, 95% CI: 1.60-7.21 (≤60 h), which were statistically significant compared to the reference (matched) group. There was no statistically significant relationship between working hours and workaholism when stratified according to the mismatch in working hours.
The workers' working hours mismatch can be significantly related to workaholism. Int J Occup Med Environ Health. 2020;33(2):187-94.
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