Jennifer Rice inspired me to try the Book Meme 123.5 exercise: open a book to the 123rd page, find the fifth sentence, and post it. I grabbed The Support Economy by Zuboff and Maxmin, which yeilded this:

Economists from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example, concluded that the average length of the workweek for many groups has changed little since the mid-1970s, but the distribution of work hours among groups has changed considerably

Basically, people are working longer hours, and most critically, women are working longer hours. Although the average worker is working slightly longer hours, much more people are in the workforce than before, with an especially large growth of women entering full-time employment. This has profound social impacts, leading to what the authors call "no time for life."

This is an indicator of the way that work is increasingly intruding into and stealing our private lives (which is another echo of the argument I was leveling in the Niall Kennedy brouhaha, here, here, and here, over the past few days).