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IN MEMORIAM: SUSAN WAPPENSTEIN PASSED AWAY ON FEBRUARY 9, 2019

La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador expresa su sentimiento de profundo pesar ante el fallecimiento de nuestra querida profesora y amiga Susana Wappenstein.

Since leaving Berkeley in 2002, I have been a professor in the Department of Sociology, School of Human Sciences, at Osaka University. In this land of the over-worked, I study worker health and well-being, and social movements that fight to improve Japanese life at work and at home. Death from overwork (karoshi) is a long-running interest, as is the gender division of labor. Recently I've been studying leisure, of the reasons for the lack thereof, adding a third leg that provides stability to my work-famliy stool.