Realty Check: The Canadian Reveiw of Wellbeing is a joint project of GPI Atlantic and the Atkinson Foundation. The November 2004 issue focuses on work time, wellbeing, and the future of work. It's available for downloading in a pdf file from both of those sites. The current issue is sort of a ten-year retrospective on the "Donner Report" (the report of the federal Advisory Group on Working Time and the Distribution of Work).
Below are the topics in this issue:
"Troubling Trends Overwork, Underwork, Insecure Work"
"Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Counting Them Wrong and Right"
"Cut overwork to create jobs"
"Canada’s blueprint for more jobs & more leisure"
"Counting the costs of overwork "
"Whatever happened to ‘the leisure society’?"
"Reality Check #9 looks at successful experiments in Europe, and examines Canada's own landmark Donner Commission Report. These experiments and recommendations demonstrate that it is possible to reduce overwork, improve work-family balance, increase free time and vacation time, and reduce unemployment and underemployment."
Posted by sandwichman at December 23, 2004 10:01 AM