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Work to Live: The Book |
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> About the Author |
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Joe Robinson |
Joe Robinson is a journalist and editor who has written extensively on the topic of our national Vacation Deficit Disorder. After doing one too many of these articles he decided to take a more interactive approach to the subject, launching the Work to Live Vacation Campaign, which featured a petition effort to get a minimum paid-leave law on the books. Tens of thousands of American workers responded to the campaign, sending in their signatures, accounts of heart attacks and breakdowns, and hand-written pleas to Congress to support minimum paid-leave legislation.
The outpouring pointed to a much bigger tragedy than the nation's disappearing vacations--a land on the brink
of a national national nervous breakdown. The crisis has been fueled by the overwork culture set in motion by the greed-at-any-cost mentality that has brought one corporate scandal after another to our nightly television screens. Robinson was compelled to try to get to the roots of this untold part of the corporate-scandal story, the growing marginalization of our personal, family, and civic lives. In WORK TO LIVE he looks at what is making us take work to extremes, and how we can get our lives back. | |
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Robinson has appeared in "Time," the "Los Angeles Times," the "Boston Globe," the "San Francisco Chronicle," and the "Chicago Tribune," as well as on "The Today Show," CNN, "NBC Nightly News," "CBS Sunday Morning," and National Public Radio to discuss the Work to Live campaign. |
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