{"id":490,"date":"2011-12-05T10:18:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=490"},"modified":"2011-12-28T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:46:23","slug":"american-work-ethic-alive-and-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2011\/12\/05\/american-work-ethic-alive-and-well\/","title":{"rendered":"American Work Ethic, Alive and Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-518\" title=\"3347363406_2fa2ab2874_m\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2011\/12\/3347363406_2fa2ab2874_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/>Okay, so we&#8217;re not in the habit of quoting facts from the mainstream media nor, for that matter, of trumpeting the work of economists (who already have a pretty solid status in the media, at least as far as social science disciplines go), but the Dec. 5th issue of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2011\/11\/27\/paul-begala-americans-haven-t-gotten-lazy.html\">Newsweek<\/a><\/em> published some facts about work in the United States that seemed important for folks who believe the American work ethic is a thing of the past. These include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans have the fewest guaranteed vacation days and holidays of any major industrialized country;<\/p>\n<p>Americans work more weeks per year than any industrialized country except Japan;<\/p>\n<p>Americans workers work more hours per year on average than workers in any other Western nation;<\/p>\n<p>And the productivity of American workers is top notch&#8211;second to none on many important measures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Published under the title &#8220;Who You Calling Lazy?&#8221;, these were culled from a report recently published by the Economic Policy Institute. \u00a0Perhaps the more general lesson here is that important information comes in all forms and formats&#8212;and anything we can do to help get it out there is part of our mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so we&#8217;re not in the habit of quoting facts from the mainstream media nor, for that matter, of trumpeting the work of economists (who already have a pretty solid status in the media, at least as far as social science disciplines go), but the Dec. 5th issue of\u00a0Newsweek published some facts about work in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2011\/12\/3347363406_2fa2ab2874_m.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}