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The good enough job : reclaiming life from work / Simone Stolzoff.
Lippincott Library - Business Trends HD4904.25 .S85 2023
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stolzoff, Simone, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Work-life balance.
- Quality of work life.
- Job satisfaction.
- Quality of life.
- Work-Life Balance.
- Job Satisfaction.
- Quality of Life.
- quality of life.
- Medical Subjects:
- Work-Life Balance.
- Job Satisfaction.
- Quality of Life.
- Genre:
- Self-help publications.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
- Summary:
- "From the moment we ask children what they want to "be" when they grow up, we teach them a fateful lesson: we are what we do. For many Americans, jobs have become akin to a religious identity - they provide a paycheck, but also meaning, community, and a sense of purpose. The question is, at what cost? In The Good Enough Job, journalist Simone Stolzoff traces how work has come to dominate our lives and why we find it so difficult to let go. Through the gripping stories of Michelin-stared chefs, Wall Street bankers, overwhelmed teachers, and tenacious union organizers, Stolzoff exposes what we lose when we expect work to be more than a job and offers research-backed strategies for how to build a healthier relationship with work. Grounded in deep reporting and provocative critique, The Good Enough Job punctures myths that keep us chained to our jobs and asks us to consider: How do we separate who we are from what we do? Why are we tempted to equate our self-worth with our net worth? What does it mean for a job to be good enough? By exposing the lies we -- and our employers -- tell us about the value of our labor, The Good Enough Job makes the urgent case for reclaiming our lives in a world centered around work."-- Dust jacket.
- Contents:
- For what it's worth
- The religion of workism
- The love of labor
- Lose yourself
- Working relationships
- Off the clock
- Work hard, go home
- The status game
- A world with less work.
- Notes:
- Place of publication from publisher's website.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-239).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Stolzoff, Simone. Good enough job
- ISBN:
- 9780593538968
- 059353896X
- OCLC:
- 1378722810
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