John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge are worried about Rebuilding the Politics of Globalization:

The arguments about the Western alliance and globalization have a strange symmetry. Many in Europe feel that the biggest threat to the global order is not rogue states, but the dominance of America: hence the need to shackle it with treaties and multilateral organizations. They feel the same about American-style capitalism. To the French and other supporters of stakeholder capitalism, le capitalisme sauvage is a beast that needs to be tamed by all sorts of rules � like the French law that bans people from working more than 35 hours a standard week.

Meanwhile, according to John De Graaf, "national coordinator of Take Back Your Time Day",

Americans now work 1,978 hours annually, a full 350 hours � nine weeks � more than Western Europeans. The average American actually worked 199 hours more in 2000 than he or she did in 1973, a period during which worker productivity per hour nearly doubled.

What happened? In effect, the United States as a society took all of its increases in labor productivity in the form of money and stuff instead of time.

He seems to realize that this is a choice:

Work and consumption are not necessarily bad. But producing and consuming can become the focus of a person's life � at the expense of other values.

But he doesn't really mean it:

The harmful effects of working more hours are being felt in many areas of society. Stress is a leading cause of heart disease and weakened immune systems. Consumption of fast foods and lack of time for exercise has led to an epidemic of obesity and diabetes. Many parents complain that they do not have enough time to spend with their children, much less become involved in their community.

I suppose this is the kind of American value anti-imperialists are worried about. But the thing is, in American capitalist society, you can still opt out. De Graaf and the anti-imperialists want to make it obligatory to pursue what they see as the ideal life-style.