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work-and-spend cycle  

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  • The work-and-spend cycle is a phenomenon in which people in affluent nations remain trapped in a pattern of long hours of work and increasing consumption spending that fails to generate lasting improvements in well-being and plays a major role in ecological degradation. For the originator of the concept, economist and sociologist Juliet Schor, it is not only a matter of the tightening grip of consumerism on culture and consciousness. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Work-and-Spend Cycle]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W7467JP7-P

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