Culture Of Overwork Judy Rebick Analysis

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In the article “The Culture of Overwork” Judy Rebick have stated fact and opinions to communicated her message to the audience of how today’s society overworks. When the author writes “Chris Schenk, research director of Ontario federation of labour, says downsizing in the recession of the early 1990’s meant fewer people had to do more work” she is stating facts. The statistics Canada and the “U.S study” as mentioned in the previous question cannot be legitimized as fact, as they are not correctly referenced in order to prove the main idea of overwork in society today. However, author mentions the statistics Canada in 1999, therefore assuming that this article was written in 2001, the 1999 study would then be a current source of information

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