To enable commenting on the artcles that originally appeared in the November, 2004 Reality Check newsletter, I've re-posted them here. If you want to print out, I recommend you use the pdf file. Reality Check: The Canadian Review of Wellbeing is a joint project of The Atkinson Charitable Foundation and GPI Atlantic.
Table of Contents:
· Jobs, jobs, jobs counting them wrong and right
· Troubling trends: overwork, underwork, insecure work
· Cut overwork to create jobs
· Canada’s blueprint for more jobs, more leisure – the donner report
· Counting the costs of overwork and underwork
· The work-and-spend treadmill
· Whatever happened to the leisure society?
· The Netherlands: from Dutch disease to Dutch miracle
· Recommended reading