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Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time

by James Suzman · 2 Sep 2020 · 909pp · 130,170 words

a result 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

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was one among many similar reported that year. The Japanese Ministry of Labour officially recognises two categories of death as a direct consequence of overworking. Karoshi describes such a death as a result of cardiac illness attributable to exhaustion, lack of sleep, poor nutrition and lack of exercise, as in Sado

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. At the end of the year, the Ministry of Labour certified that 190 deaths occurred over the course of 2013 as a result of either karoshi or karo jisatsu, with the former outnumbering the latter two to one. This was roughly in line with the average annual numbers for the preceding

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decade. But Japan’s Ministry of Labour will only ever declare a death by karoshi or karo jisatsu under exceptional circumstances, and when it can be proved beyond doubt that the worker has dramatically exceeded reasonable limits for overtime, and

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(like severe hypertension). As a result, some, like Hiroshi Kawahito, the secretary general of Japan’s National Defence Counsel for Victims of Karoshi – one of a host of anti-karoshi organisations in Japan – insists that the government is reluctant to embrace the true scale of the problem. He takes the view that

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are the numbers of people who cause workplace accidents as a consequence of being exhausted while on the job. In 1969, the first case of karoshi was officially acknowledged after a twenty-nine-year-old clerk in the shipping department of a major Japanese newspaper keeled over and perished at his

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their families or, worse still, disappointing their bosses and weakening the company. But where kacho-byo is a problem that only afflicts white-collar workers, karoshi is an equal-opportunity killer that preys as eagerly on blue-collar workers as it does on managers, teachers, healthcare workers and CEOs. Japan is

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their workstations. South Koreans, who work on average 400 more hours per year than Britons or Australians, have adopted a form of the Japanese word karoshi to describe the same phenomenon. So too have the Chinese. Since China’s cautious embrace of ‘state capitalism’ in 1979, their economy has grown at

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the last two decades, with the greatest strides being taken in South Korea. This shift has been credited in part to the advocacy of anti-karoshi groups pushing for a more harmonious work–life balance. In Japan in 2018, for example, the average worker officially clocked around 1,680 hours of

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the turn of the twentieth century, were viewed as little more than a disposable mass of cheap labourers. But what makes the individual stories of karoshi and karo jisatsu different from these is the fact that what drove the likes of Miwa Sado to lose or take their lives was not

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14 1‘Death by overwork on rise among Japan’s vulnerable workers’, Japan Times (Reuters), 3 April 2016. 2Behrooz Asgari, Peter Pickar and Victoria Garay, ‘Karoshi and Karou-jisatsu in Japan: causes, statistics and prevention mechanisms’, Asia Pacific Business & Economics Perspectives, Winter 2016, 4(2). 3http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china

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/11/content_27635578.htm. 4All data from OECD.Stat, https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=AVE_HRS. 5‘White Paper on Measures to Prevent Karoshi, etc.’, Annual Report for 2016, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, https://fpcj.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/…/8f513ff4e9662ac515de9e646f63d8b5.pdf. 6China Labour Statistical Yearbook 2016

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the last two decades, with the greatest strides being taken in South Korea. This shift has been credited in part to the advocacy of anti-karoshi groups pushing for a more harmonious work–life balance. In Japan in 2018, for example, the average worker officially clocked around 1,680 hours of

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was one among many similar reported that year. The Japanese Ministry of Labour officially recognises two categories of death as a direct consequence of overworking. Karoshi describes such a death as a result of cardiac illness attributable to exhaustion, lack of sleep, poor nutrition and lack of exercise, as in Sado

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. At the end of the year, the Ministry of Labour certified that 190 deaths occurred over the course of 2013 as a result of either karoshi or karo jisatsu, with the former outnumbering the latter two to one. This was roughly in line with the average annual numbers for the preceding

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decade. But Japan’s Ministry of Labour will only ever declare a death by karoshi or karo jisatsu under exceptional circumstances, and when it can be proved beyond doubt that the worker has dramatically exceeded reasonable limits for overtime, and

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(like severe hypertension). As a result, some, like Hiroshi Kawahito, the secretary general of Japan’s National Defence Counsel for Victims of Karoshi – one of a host of anti-karoshi organisations in Japan – insists that the government is reluctant to embrace the true scale of the problem. He takes the view that

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their workstations. South Koreans, who work on average 400 more hours per year than Britons or Australians, have adopted a form of the Japanese word karoshi to describe the same phenomenon. So too have the Chinese. Since China’s cautious embrace of ‘state capitalism’ in 1979, their economy has grown at

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The End of Work

by Jeremy Rifkin · 28 Dec 1994 · 372pp · 152 words

under lean-production practices has reached nearepidemic proportions in Japan. The problem has become so acute that the Japanese government has even coined a term, karoshi, to explain the pathology of the new production-related illness. A spokesperson for Japan's National Institute of Public Health defines

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karoshi as "a condition in which psychologically unsound work practices are allowed to continue in such a way that disrupts the worker's normal work and

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the body and a chronic condition of overwork accompanied by a worsening of preexisting high blood pressure and finally resulting in a fatal breakdown."12 Karoshi is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. The introduction of computerized technology has greatly accelerated the pace and flow of activity at the workplace, forcing millions of

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Society 14 #2, 1985, pp. ll5-146. 5. Sakuma, Shinju, and Ohnomori, Hideaki, "The Auto Industry," ch. 2 in Karoshi: When the Corporate Warrior Dies, National Defense Council for Victims of Karoshi (Tokyo: Mado-sha Publishers, 1990). 6. Kenney, Martin, and Florida, Richard, Beyond Mass Production: The japanese System and Its Transfer

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, 6A-7A; "Injury, Training Woes Hit New Mazda Plant," Automotive News, February 13,1989, pp. 1, 52. 12. Kenney and F1orida, p. 265. See also Karoshi: When the Corporate Warrior Dies. 13. Simons, Geoff, Silicon Shock: The Menace of the Computer Invasion (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985), p. 165. 14. Brod

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for shorter workweek in, 226-27 elimination of jobs in, 105 jichikai,277-78 just-in-time production in, 99-100 kaizen, 97-98 Index karoshi,186 koeki hojin, 277 lean production in, 96-100 post-Fordist production, 94-95 Real-World Program in, 61 steel industry in, 133 -34 stress

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, 99,100 Joseph, Jim, 275 Just-in-time production, 99-100, 201 Just This Once, 159 Kahn, Tom, 74 Kaizen,97-98 Kajdasz, Ann, 171 Karoshi,186 Kawasaki, 133 Keener, Robert, 193 Kellogg, W. K., 27 Kellogg's, 26, 27 Kennedy, John F., 82 Kennedy, Paul, 206 Kenne~~artin,100,132

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

life. It’s 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

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, starting to measure it, and imposing a nontrivial punishment on the companies driving it were the first steps in keeping karoshi from getting out of hand. There’s now words for karoshi in Mandarin, Korean, and other Asian languages, though today they’re mostly applied to blue-collar factory workers, not well

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Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work, Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare Karoshi, National Defense Counsel for Victims of Karoshi On tech, automation, and the future of work The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides

by Garr Reynolds · 29 Jan 2010

they remembered most 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

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of the hour-long presentation was spent on karoshi, but that’s what the audience remembered most. It’s easy to understand why. The issue of death-from-overwork and the relatively high number

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are extremely emotional topics that are not often discussed. The presenters cited actual cases and told stories of people who died as a result of karoshi. The stories and the emotional connections they triggered—surprise, sympathy, and empathy—with the audience caused these relatively small points to be remembered most in

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The Craft of Scientific Presentations, 40 critical incidents, using, 158 Cs of presenting with impact, 193– 195, 197 D “Deadliest Catch,” 79 death by overwork (karoshi), 47 Decker, Bert, 7, 80–81 deep or wide, 40 defensiveness, avoiding, 177 deGrasse Tyson, Neil, 16, 145 demos, performing, 117–118 depth vs. scope

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–151 jounetsu (passion), 100 judo (the way of gentleness), 190 The Naked Presenter Wow! eBook <WoweBook.Com> K N kaizen (continuous improvement, 72 Kanji, 100 karoshi (death by overwork), 47 Kashima Shin School, 124 Kawasaki, Guy, 81 Keynote technology, 9 keynote, presentation tips from, 148– 151. See also presentations Ki (life

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

by Adam L. Alter · 15 Feb 2017 · 331pp · 96,989 words

we happen to 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

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worked between sixteen and nineteen hours per day, sometimes from home, and an autopsy suggested that he died from “cardiogenic shock.” A recurring theme in karoshi cases is that victims spend far more time at work than necessary. They’re often successful, and they have more than enough money. They aren

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’ve never used: See, e.g., J. Etkin, “The Hidden Cost of Personal Quantification,” Journal of Consumer Research, forthcoming). The same technology: On overworking and karoshi, see: Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Elena Stancanelli, “Long Workweeks and Strange Hours,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review (forthcoming); Christopher K. Hsee, Jiao Zhang, Cindy F

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They Have Everything They Need,” Business Insider, July 10, 2014, www.businessinsider.com/why-people-work-too-much-2014-7; International Labour Organization, “Case Study: Karoshi: Death from Overwork,” International Labour Relations, April 23, 2013, www.ilo.org/safework/info/publications/WCMS_211571/lang—en/index.htm ; China Post News Staff

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Play program, 304–5 Kagan, Jerome, 19–20 Kahneman, Daniel, 282 Kaiser Foundation, 245–46 Kappes, Heather, 161 Kardashian, Kim, 158 “Karma Police” (Radiohead), 195 karoshi (death from overworking), 186–87 Keas, 300–302 Kennedy, Joe, 279–80 khat leaf, 31 King, 137 Klosterman, Chuck, 109–10 Koenig, Sarah, 196, 197

Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less

by Michael Hyatt · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 59,662 words

,000 deaths per year in the US alone.9 During the 1970s in Japan the problem was so acute, they coined a word for it: karoshi, “death by overwork.”10 Clearly, if our goal in increasing productivity is to achieve some vague notion of “success,” we aren’t doing it right

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-reduce-work-stress. 10. Chris Weller, “Japan Is Facing a ‘Death by Overwork’ Problem,” Business Insider, October 18, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-karoshi-japanese-word-for-death-by-overwork-2017-10. Jake Adelstein, who has worked in Japanese media, said 80-to-100-hour weeks are routine: “Japan

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instant-gratification culture, 84 interruptions, 207–11, 226 Isolator, 205–6, 212 Jobs, Steve, 111 Johnson, Paul, 81–82 Jones, Charlie “Tremendous”, 50 journaling, 220 karoshi (death by overwork), 32 Kennedy, John F., 71 King, Stephen, 223 knowledge workers, 28 Koch, Jim, 200, 202 Lewis, Penelope A., 70 liberating truths, 59

Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away

by Julien Saunders and Kiersten Saunders · 13 Jun 2022 · 268pp · 64,786 words

happen before 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

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, “Japan Is Facing a ‘Death by Overwork’ Problem—Here’s What It’s All About,” Business Insider, Oct. 18, 2017, www.businessinsider.com/what-is-karoshi-japanese-word-for-death-by-overwork-2017-10. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 7 Faith Among Black Americans, Pew Research Center, Feb. 16, 2021, www.pewforum

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, average hours spent at work in, 32 Johnson, Dwayne “the Rock,” 112–13, 114 Johnson, Sue, 189 Journey to Launch (Souffrant), 217 K Kajabi, 137 karoshi, 32 thekeyresource.com, 85 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 40–41 L labels, constraints of, 191–92 lending practices, unfair, 3 lifestyles and financial freedom, 34

Presentation Zen

by Garr Reynolds · 15 Jan 2012

they remembered most vividly were not the labor laws, the principles, and the changes in the labor market in Japan but, rather, the topic of karoshi, or suicide related to work, and the issue of suicides in Japan, topics that were quite minor points in the hour-long presentation. Perhaps five

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minutes out of the hour 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

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are extremely emotional topics that are not often discussed. The presenters cited actual cases and told stories of people who died as a result of karoshi. The stories and the connections they made with the audience caused these relatively small points to be remembered because emotions such as surprise, sympathy, and

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

by Parag Khanna · 4 Mar 2008 · 537pp · 158,544 words

China 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

Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less Here's How

by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · 10 Mar 2020 · 257pp · 76,785 words

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, in