Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
by Anne Helen Petersen · 14 Jan 2021 · 297pp · 88,890 words
, 2015. 9. Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep (New York: Verso, 2014), 13. 10. Jia Tolentino, “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death,” The New Yorker, March 22, 2017. 11. Sarah Krouse, “The New Ways Your Boss Is Spying on You,” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2019. 12
Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
by Michael Hyatt · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 59,662 words
still has more tasks than you can reasonably do yourself. Believe it or not, it’s possible to stay in your Desire Zone but still work yourself to death. In fact, it’s a real temptation for high-achievers. If you get to this point, you’ll need to examine every task and try
Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less Here's How
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · 10 Mar 2020 · 257pp · 76,785 words
any other country in the world (only Mexicans work more). Suicide rates have tripled since 1990. The Korean language now has its own word for “working yourself to death”—gwarosa. Yet despite (or maybe because of) this history, a number of companies in Korea are experimenting with ways to shorten working hours. In 2018
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
by Andrew Keen · 1 Mar 2018 · 308pp · 85,880 words
Tolentino bluntly put it, commenting on the cult of work celebrated by on-demand companies such as the freelance marketplace Fiverr, “The gig economy celebrates working yourself to death.”32 My own experience as a heavy Uber user chimes with these conclusions. On my travels around the world to research this book, I’ve
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an Hour Prompts Calls for Government Action,” Guardian, July 6, 2017. 31. “The Gig Economy’s False Promise.” 32. Jia Tolentino, “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death,” Guardian, March 22, 2017. 33. Chantel McGee, “Only 4 Percent of Uber Drivers Remain on the Platform a Year Later, Says Report,” CNBC, April 20
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
by Fumio Sasaki · 10 Apr 2017 · 167pp · 49,719 words
you can even live someplace abroad where minimum living costs are even lower. There’s no point in putting up with a terrible job or working yourself to death just to maintain your standard of living. By having less and lowering your minimum living costs, you can go anywhere you want. Minimalism can really
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle · 14 Oct 2022 · 655pp · 156,367 words
Job and the Future of Work (London: Random House Business, 2019); Jia Tolentino, “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death,” New Yorker, March 22, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death, accessed June 28, 2021; Nathan Heller, “Is the Gig Economy Working?” New Yorker, May 8, 2017, https
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
by Alex Rosenblat · 22 Oct 2018 · 343pp · 91,080 words
the green Fiverr icon and the same logo, “In Doers We Trust.” As the title of one New Yorker article observed, “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death.”66 An Uber driver posted a link to this article in a forum with the comment “I’d still rather overwork in the gig economy
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Uncertainty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), particularly pp. 29–31. 66. Jia Tolentino, “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death,” New Yorker, March 22, 2017, www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death. 67. Elizabeth Wissinger, “Glamor Labour in the Age of Kardashian,” Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty 7, no
Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy
by Jeremias Prassl · 7 May 2018 · 491pp · 77,650 words
, the entrepreneurship narrative actively cele- brates (self-)exploitation. New Yorker journalist Jia Tolentino has highlighted a series of instances of ‘the gig economy celebrat[ing] working yourself to death’: It does require a fairly dystopian strain of doublethink for a company to celebrate how hard and how constantly its employees must work to make
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, archived at https://perma.cc/ULZ7-QGMZ * * * 166 Notes 80. Jia Tolentino, ‘The gig economy celebrates working yourself to death’, The New Yorker (22 March 2017), http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/ the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death, archived at https:// perma.cc/JX8G-37QX chapter 4 1. Hans C. Andersen, Keiserens nye klæder (tr
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You
by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms · 2 Apr 2018 · 416pp · 100,130 words
”: DCX Growth Accelerator, “Fiverr Debuts First-Ever Brand Campaign,” PR Newswire, January 9, 2017. “I’d guess that plenty”: Jia Tolentino, “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death,” The New Yorker, March 22, 2017. With more than 24 million members: “Company Overview,” July 2017. www.care.com. “If we want to sustain”: Sheila
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn · 2 Jan 1977 · 913pp · 299,770 words
-Zeitung and printed a circular in both English and German: Revenge! Workingmen, to Arms!!! . . . You have for years endured the most abject humiliations; . . . you have worked yourself to death . . . your Children you have sacrificed to the factory lord—in short: you have been miserable and obedient slaves all these years: Why? To satisfy the
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 76,686 words
even withhold some of that time to sustain yourself with food is essentially ridiculed. In a New Yorker article aptly titled “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death,” Jia Tolentino concludes after reading a Fiverr press release: “This is the jargon through which the essentially cannibalistic nature of the gig economy is dressed
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: AK Press, 2011), 66. 15. Ibid., 129. 16. Bernardi, 35. 17. Jia Tolentino, “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death,” New Yorker, March 22, 2017: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death. 18. Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only
Ninefox Gambit
by Yoon Ha Lee · 13 Jun 2016 · 360pp · 100,063 words
disorganized report on Medical’s preparedness. “Isn’t there something you do to relax?” “I should –” “Trust me, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to work yourself to death later. Do something fun while you can.” Cheris was dubious, but she invited some servitors to join her for a drama. A deltaform and a
Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw · 15 Nov 2007 · 1,230pp · 357,848 words
us after January for a trip to Italy. Think it over.”37 On September 9, having no response from Frick, Carnegie tried again. “Do not work yourself to death, and do arrange to take that trip abroad that I spoke of.”38 Frick continued to work like a demon. That winter, he moved his
Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough
by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss · 31 May 2005
hours they have neither the relationship nor the living skills to realise the dream. Working ourselves sick Health The Japanese workplace is notorious for karoshi—death by overwork. A study of Japanese employees who had died from cardiovascular 92 OVERWORK attack found that over two-thirds had worked more than 60 hours
Sugar: A Bittersweet History
by Elizabeth Abbott · 14 Sep 2011 · 522pp · 144,511 words
some 20 men commit suicide,” Lin A-pang testified, “by hanging themselves and by jumping into wells and sugar cauldrons.”562 Suicide and death from despair, illness and overwork caused an annual mortality rate planters calculated at 10 percent. The Ch’en Lan Pin Commission estimated that 50 percent died during their
Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
by Peter Fleming · 14 Jun 2015 · 320pp · 86,372 words
it as something they did among others things, what we might call the bio-proletariat view their jobs as something they ‘are’. While suicide and death-by-overwork are extreme cases, they are indicative of an idealization of employment that affects many people, encouraging them to perceive their jobs as everything. Work
Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement
by Robert Clyatt · 28 Sep 2007
than 48 hours per week: 20% • Japanese working more than 48 hours per week: 28% • Japanese dying each year from karoshi, the official term for Death by Overwork: 10,000 Sources: Jon Messenger, “Working Time and Workers’ Preferences in Industrial Countries, Finding the Balance” (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy, 50
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
by Adam L. Alter · 15 Feb 2017 · 331pp · 96,989 words
be, that stopping rule is obsolete. Since the late 1960s, but especially in the past two decades, Japanese workers have whispered about karoshi, literally “death from overworking.” The term applies to workers, particularly mid- and high-level executives who struggle to leave work behind at the end of the day. As a
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time
by James Suzman · 2 Sep 2020 · 909pp · 130,170 words
of congenital heart failure. But following an investigation by Japan’s Ministry of Labour, the official cause of her death was changed to ‘karoshi’: death by overwork. In the month preceding her death, Sado had clocked an exhausting 159 hours of official overtime. That was equivalent to working two full eight-hour
Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
by Jamie K. McCallum · 15 Nov 2022 · 349pp · 99,230 words
more than the Germans. We even logged more work time than the perceived workaholics in Japan, who even have a word, karoshi, that means “death by overwork.” The United States has fewer paid holidays than our peers have and is the only wealthy nation without a legal right to paid sick leave
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
by Emily Guendelsberger · 15 Jul 2019 · 382pp · 114,537 words
making us sick and terrified and cruel and hopeless. And it’s killing us. In the 1970s, Japan coined a new word—karoshi, meaning death by overwork—after businessmen in their thirties and forties started dropping dead from strokes, heart attacks, and suicide after working twenty-hour days for months at a
Working Hard, Hardly Working
by Grace Beverley
the haunting Japanese term to describe those who die from a sudden heart attack or stroke caused by excessive overworking,1 most commonly translated as ‘overwork death’.) Or maybe, the churning stops when we realise we can never win this contest, and we take a step back and settle in for the
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
by Hawon Jung · 21 Mar 2023 · 401pp · 112,589 words
manage to keep their jobs but endure the crushing double burden of professional and domestic work, their plight encapsulated in the slang term “working-mom overwork death.” In one notable case in 2017, an elite official at the welfare ministry, the very agency tasked with raising the birth rate, died from overworking
The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides
by Garr Reynolds · 29 Jan 2010
vividly was not the labor laws, the principles, and changes in the labor market in Japan. Rather, they remembered the topic of karoshi (literally, “death by overwork”) and the issue of suicides in Japan—topics that were quite minor points in the hour-long presentation. About five minutes of the hour-long
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by Michael Shermer · 1 Jan 1997 · 404pp · 134,430 words
), to concentration and isolation (often under overcrowded and filthy conditions, leading to disease and death), to economic exploitation (unpaid forced labor that often involved overwork, starvation, and death), to extermination. Gutman agrees with this contingent interpretation: "The Final Solution was an operation that started from the bottom, from a local basis, with
Fuller Memorandum
by Stross, Charles · 14 Jan 2010 · 366pp · 107,145 words
wadded-up rugby sock held in place by tubigrip, now black with clotted blood. "You really ought to have taken the week off sick: overwork will be the death of you, you know." "Fuck off!" Fury and pain give way to a mix of disgust and self-contempt. I should have seen
The Hour of Fate
by Susan Berfield
want to go to jail?” Complicating matters69 was the fact that Morgan’s favored partner was unwell. The May panic had strained Bob Bacon. Overworked since Coster’s death and clashing with Perkins, he had suffered a nervous breakdown. Morgan granted him a year’s leave, and on November 6, Bacon sailed
Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away
by Julien Saunders and Kiersten Saunders · 13 Jun 2022 · 268pp · 64,786 words
we connect the dots between public health and work? Do we need a big scary name for it? In Japan they call it karoshi—death caused by overwork or exhaustion. According to a Business Insider article, “In the US, 16.4% of people work an average of 49 hours or longer each
Underground, Overground
by Andrew Martin · 13 Nov 2012 · 326pp · 93,522 words
, including dying. He’d set up in architectural practice at twenty-two; he became architect to the UERL at twenty-eight, and his early death probably came from overwork – so making him another of our Underground martyrs. He made the Yerkes Tubes assert themselves through four-square, classical buildings containing ticket offices
Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
by Joshua S. Goldstein · 15 Sep 2011 · 511pp · 148,310 words
the packed throng, cutting off arms and legs and disemboweling their victims in a slaughter that continued until virtually everyone was dead.” More deaths came about indirectly through overwork and exploitation in mines and plantations. One eyewitness, Bartolomé de Las Casas, reported, “The newborns died soon, because their mothers, because of the
Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna · 4 Mar 2008 · 537pp · 158,544 words
and employs close to two hundred thousand people. But no matter whose factory or mine Chinese laborers work in, minimal rights often translate into guolaosi—“death from overwork.”26 Nonetheless, over a billion Chinese can have all the basic aspects of material welfare covered, because unlike third-world countries, they produce all
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 3 Apr 2014 · 464pp · 116,945 words
the labour force to one side in his theorising of capital’s political economy. But plainly, if labourers do not reproduce themselves or are overworked to a premature death down the mines and in the factories (or commit suicide from overwork, as has been regularly happening in Chinese factories) and if capital’s
The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885
by Pierre Berton · 1 Jan 1971 · 612pp · 200,406 words
a contractor. He died on June 21 of that year at Oscawana-on-the-Hudson. He was fifty-six years old. The cause of death was given as “overwork.” Arthur Wellington Ross lived in Vancouver for six years following its establishment as the Canadian Pacific’s terminus – a decision in which he
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
by William J. Bernstein · 5 May 2009 · 565pp · 164,405 words
is the deadliest of crops, and for the most part British North America did not grow it. The cutting, grinding, and boiling meant overwork and an early death for millions of Africans-most of them men, since vigorous males were the import of choice on the plantations. Nothing like the sugar islands
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson · 1 Jan 2002 · 469pp · 146,487 words
sends out fresh drafts for the first fighting-line, which is officially called the Indian Civil Service. These die, or kill themselves by overwork, or are worried to death or broken in health and hope in order that the land may be protected from death and sickness, famine and war, and may eventually
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future
by Julia Hobsbawm · 11 Apr 2022 · 172pp · 50,777 words
83 per cent of American workers suffer from work-related illnesses. In South Korea the working week was reduced in 2018 because of ‘Gwarosa’ or ‘death from overwork’. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that depression and anxiety alone cost the global economy $1 trillion every year.4 The pandemic lifted the
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End to Extreme Work Weeks’, BBC Worklife, 17 January 2020, https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200114-how-the-japanese-are-putting-an-end-to-death-from-overwork Chapter 2: Shift 2: Worker Beings 1. Catherine Salfino, ‘Why Growth in Athleisure is the Pandemic’s Silver Lining’, Sourcing Journal, 13 August 2020
The Classical School
by Callum Williams · 19 May 2020 · 288pp · 89,781 words
and John Bellamy Foster put it, “Jevons’s intellectual career bloomed for a mere 20 years due to a late start and an early death.” Perhaps because of overwork, he retired in 1880, while only in his forties. Shortly afterwards, while on holiday in Hastings, he went swimming in the sea, got
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
by Eva Dou · 14 Jan 2025 · 394pp · 110,159 words
woke up. As Huawei struggled to quell a nationwide backlash, a spokesperson told reporters that Hu Xinyu had died from an illness, not overwork. The string of “unnatural” deaths at Huawei continued for two years. One Huawei employee jumped to his death at an R&D center. Another leaped over the railing
Pocket London Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
close of session Fri) can be visited via the ‘Strangers’ Gallery’. The intricate Gothic interior led its architect, Pugin (1812–52), to an early death from overwork. Houses of Parliament JOHN HAY/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © Tours On Saturdays and when Parliament is in recess, visitors can join a 75-minute guided tour
Lonely Planet London
by Lonely Planet · 22 Apr 2012
also open for visits, via the amusingly named ‘Strangers’ Gallery’. The intricate Gothic interior led its poor architect, Pugin (1812–52), to an early death from overwork and nervous strain. Most of the members of the House of Lords are life peers (appointed for their lifetime by the monarch); there is also
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
run take their physiological toll, whether through heart attacks, strokes, or just dropping dead. The Japanese have a name for it — karōshi — which literally means “overwork death”, and in their first comprehensive survey of the problem published in 2016 listed ninety-six such deaths the year before plus ninety-three suicides and
A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
by Judith Flanders · 6 Feb 2020 · 404pp · 110,942 words
manuscript came into the ownership of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose clerk produced an index for it – ‘out of pity for students whose overwork leads to sickness and death’ – he wrote, using James le Palmer’s marginal notes for his subject categories. (See here, in the colour picture section.)65 The notion
Busy
by Tony Crabbe · 7 Jul 2015 · 254pp · 81,009 words
as accelerated wear and tear on the body and brain. In Japan there is a word for the consequences of this: karoshi, which means “death from overwork.” Karoshi happens when chronic fatigue, stemming from long hours and persistent stress, lead otherwise healthy young adults to drop down dead from a stroke or
A Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
by Helen Russell · 14 Sep 2015 · 322pp · 99,918 words
on my factory tour tell me that the Japanese have their own word that sums up their country’s approach to work: ‘karoshi’, meaning ‘death from overwork’. There’s no danger of that in Denmark. Later that day, Lego Man and I are comparing diaries for the week ahead when he tells
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
by John Gray · 11 Apr 2011 · 232pp · 67,934 words
by the Nazis at Sobibor and Treblinka, for example. Most of those who died in the Gulag were killed by slave labour – by overwork, hunger, disease or cold. (Death from cold presented a problem for the authorities, who were supposed to keep records. In some camps the frozen hands of the dead
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
by Noam Chomsky · 24 Oct 2014
Free World, do not fall under the concept of “human rights violations” in the sense of the recent human rights campaign; to achieve this status, deaths from overwork or otherwise must be in the “right place at the right time” (see the discussion of Cambodia, volume II, chapter 6, in particular the
"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths About Immigration
by Aviva Chomsky · 23 Apr 2018 · 219pp · 62,816 words
. Slaveholders generally preferred to purchase slaves of prime working age and strength. They discovered that it was cheaper to continually import new slaves and overwork them to death rather than having to pay for the reproduction of their slave labor force. Brazilian slaveholders found that they could recover the cost of purchasing a
The City: A Global History
by Joel Kotkin · 1 Jan 2005
lethal health problems. Death rates in early-nineteenth-century Manchester were one in twenty-five, almost three times that of surrounding rural hamlets. Death from disease, malnutrition, and overwork became so pervasive that factories could be kept running only by tapping a continuous supply of workers from the distant countryside and from
Together
by Vivek H. Murthy, M.D. · 5 Mar 2020 · 405pp · 112,470 words
cultures reward this behavior more than others. In Japan it’s common enough that there’s a special term for this condition: karōshi. It means “death from overwork.” But in America, he said, “we don’t really have a name that identifies it because of the denial in our culture.” Bryan’s
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
by Guy Standing · 27 Feb 2011 · 209pp · 89,619 words
gift relationship of subservience, filial duty and decades of intensified labour. The result was a culture of service overtime and the ultimate sacrifice of karoshi, death from overwork (Mouer and Kawanishi, 2005). But since the early 1980s, the share of the Japanese labour force in the salariat has shrunk dramatically. Those still
Lonely Planet London City Guide
by Tom Masters, Steve Fallon and Vesna Maric · 31 Jan 2010
for visits. Against a backdrop of peers’ gentle snoring, you can view the intricate Gothic interior that led poor Pugin (1812–52) to an early death from overwork and nervous strain. When Parliament is in recess, there are 75-minute guided summer tours ( 0870 906 3773; St Stephen’s Entrance, St Margaret
Presentation Zen
by Garr Reynolds · 15 Jan 2012
were spent on the issue of karoshi, but that’s what the audience remembered most. It’s easy to understand why. The issue of death from overworking and the relatively high number of suicides are extremely emotional topics that are not often discussed. The presenters cited actual cases and told stories of
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
by Patrick McGee · 13 May 2025 · 377pp · 138,306 words
yet another trip to Asia. The engineers were often in their forties and fifties, and while it’s not possible to conclude that overwork was their cause of death, many believe it was. One longtime veteran recalls that, during the funeral for one of these people, the number of Apple employees who