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The article ‘Work-life balance in the United States’ is a good article that can give people a shallow understanding of how Americans have fought to have more time outside of work. However, this article lacks an in-depth analysis of the work-life balance in the United States. The examples used in this article are very vague and short. The sentence structure in this article can be confusing. For example, the very first sentence is “The first enforceable hours' law in the United States was in 1874 when Massachusetts enacted a law which limited the amount of time that women and children could work each week”. A better sentence would be “In 1874 the United States saw its first enforced laws about work hours in the State of Massachusetts. Massachusetts enacted a law that limited the mouth of time women and children could work each week”. My sentence is not perfect, but that is an idea of what a better sentence would sound like. I also think that the author of this article could have explained why Massachusetts decided to change the work hours of women and children. Whenever the author tells a statement it would be nice to give an example. For instance, in the next sentence, he/she says that similar laws adopt work laws. It would be nice if he/she would have listed two states as an example. The author could just write better sentences and organize them better. The author of this article could have talked more about how children under a certain age completely left the work force. I think that would be interesting and it is an important part of the work-life balance in the United States. I love how the author talked about how people wanted to work more for commodities. I think that is a very relevant point in work-life balance in the United States. This article has a lot of interesting point to work from, especially the social science aspect of this article. Although I have no research on this topic, I think social science played a bigger role than what the author mentioned in the work place.

Annotated Bibliography

Borman, Walter C., Ilgen, Daniel R., Klimoski, Richard J., & Weiner, Irving B. (2004). Handbook of Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology. (Volume 12). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Publisher. This handbook of psychology talks how work during the industrial revolution mentally affected employees for the worst. It also talks about this new work force that is specialized and how it mentally affects workers.

Van Horn, Carl E., & Schuffner, Herbert A. (2003). Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society. (Volume 1). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO Publisher. This encyclopedia talks about how work life in the United States went from servitude to agricultural to industrial. This change of work life in the has changed what work meant to united state employers and employees.

Van Horn, Carl E., & Schuffner, Herbert A. (2003). Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society. (Volume 2). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO Publisher. Volume II of this encyclopedia talks about how work industries are more technological and this new field of work requires a different work from employees.

Weir, Robert E., & Hanlan, James P. (2004). Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor. (Volume 1). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publisher. This encyclopedia talks labor unions and how they started.

Weir, Robert E., & Hanlan, James P. (2004). Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor. (Volume 2). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publisher. This encyclopedia talks about how the laws those labor unions were able to get passed, and labor in America changed to incorporate more people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keke j (talk • contribs) 19:50, 2 November 2016 (UTC)