ABSTRACT
Most working-age Americans and Britons spend nearly half of their waking hours on the job or commuting to it. Thus it is not difficult to make the case that working conditions call for separate treatment in this book, which is primarily focused on consumption. Pay and hours of work, nonpecuniary rewards and dissatisfactions, and distinctive workplace hazards affect the worker's well-being quite as directly as does the consumption of goods and services outside of the workplace. Indeed, to a large extent they shape these consumption patterns and influence one's feelings of well-being off the job as well as on it. 1
