The Chronicle: Sociologists Ponder the Costs of Overwork
Social scientists should give more scrutiny to “overwork” and “underwork,” several scholars urged on Monday during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association here. In today’s labor market, the scholars said, many people find themselves working significantly more or fewer hours than they would prefer—and those schedules have put new strains on family life.
The papers discussed on Monday and others presented over the weekend were part of the conference’s central theme of labor and the workplace.
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