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'Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives' by Madeleine Bunting 'Willing Slaves - How the Overwork Culture Is Ruling Our Lives' by Madeline Bunting The British work the longest hours in Europe. What do they get in return? Work-related stress is soaring and Britain has one of the highest rates of job insecurity in the world. Over a third of the workforce is so exhausted at the end of a day's work that they can only slump on the sofa. Among the questions Madeleine Bunting investigates in this radical and hard hitting expose of the overwork culture are: Why do we work so hard? Why do we put up with it? What is the cost to our health, relationships and children? Technology was supposed to create a leisure society. Yet the British are experiencing unprecedented job intensification in every office, classroom, shop floor and hospital as a cult of efficiency drives ever more exacting targets. The phenomenon has been masked by a type of management which promises much but delivers one of the most exploitative and manipulative work cultures developed since the Industrial Revolution.   The British workforce has not been so powerless for decades. For their - more or less willing - labour they get an ever smaller share of the cake as pay inequity widens sharply. Britain's overwork doesn't ever increase its productivity, which lags well behind that of other countries.   Willing Slaves, based on first-hand research and hundreds of interviews explores the paradox of how we allow ourselves to be exploited and how we look to work to give out lives meaning and purpose. It reveals how such an astonishing fraud has been perpetrated and analyses why millions of workers face burnout but believe 'there is no alternative' - and what we have to do to take our own lives back.