TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: Take Back Your Time Day

Introduction: Time Poverty and What We Can Do About It

Part One: Overwork in America

Chapter 1: An Issue for Everybody

Chapter 2: The (Even More) Overworked American

Chapter 3: The Incredible Shrinking Vacation

Chapter 4: Forced Overtime in the Land of the Free

Chapter 5: Two Jobs and an Empty Pot

Part Two: Time Is A Family Value

Chapter 6: Overscheduled Kids, Underconnected Families

Chapter 7: Recapturing Childhood

Chapter 8: What About Fluffy and Fido

Part Three: The Cost to Civil Society

Chapter 9: Reclaiming Community Time - The Work We Really Need to Do

Chapter 10: Time to Be a Citizen

Chapter 11: Time and Crime

Part Four: Health Hazards

Chapter 12: An Hour A Day (Could Keep the Doctor Away)

Chapter 13: The (Bigger) Picture of Health

Part Five: Environmental Consequences of the Hurried Life

Chapter 14: Haste Makes Waste

Chapter 15: The Speed Trap

Chapter 16: On Time, Happiness, and a Small Footprint

Part Six: Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Chapter 17: When We Had the Time

Chapter 18: Can America Learn from Shabbat?

Part Seven: Taking Back Your Time

Chapter 19: Enough - The Time Cost of Stuff

Chapter 20: The Simple Solution

Chapter 21: Overcoming the Fear of Leisure

Part Eight: Workplace Solutions

Chapter 22: Jobs to Share

Chapter 23: A New Bottom Line

Chapter 24: Working Retired

Chapter 25: A Case for Sabbaticals

Chapter 26: America Needs a Break

Chapter 27: It Would be Good for Business Too

Part Nine: Rethinking Patterns of Culture

Chapter 28: Recipes for Change

Chapter 29: Time by Design

Part Ten: Changing Public Policy

Chapter 30: Europe's Work-Time Alternatives

Chapter 31: A Policy Agenda for Taking Back Time

Chapter 32: What's an Economy For?