BROKEN PROMISES

Not that he won't stump on his own. He'll still meet with women's-movement leaders, he says, because "women are a lot less psychotic about work than men are." He has high hopes for a partnership with the Green Party. He wants to see what labor leaders have to say. He'll keep his Web site (http://www.fourhourday.org/) fresh, and he's still sending opinion articles to progressive publications, now with notes that read, "I reject your rejection." He'll continue to hone his guitar chops for gigs at coffeehouses and bookstores that haven't been booked yet. He's just a man with an idea, he says, one he feels compelled to share. "All I want to say with the book is that the four-hour day is thinkable," he says.

He'll even make an example of himself, putting his security on the line in service of the cause, Sinclair says. He'll gleefully and unilaterally cut his eight-hour shift at the machine shop in half. But not just yet.

"Maybe when I get my last two kids through college," Sinclair says, looking a little sheepish. And there's really no reason to hurry. Rome, like social movements, wasn't built in one workday.

Other relevant books: Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin. It's a provocative, thought-provoking book on work, life, money ... too much work, not enough time, not feeling fulfilled at work, what is enough, doing things that are worthwhile, etc ...

~ Doug Larson