Benjamin Hunnicutt

Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781439907146
• ISBN-10: 1439907145
• Artikelnr.: 36081554

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt is a Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Iowa. He is also the author of Kellogg's Six-Hour Day and Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (both Temple).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Higher Progress—the Forgotten American Dream
1 The Kingdom of God in America: Progress as the Advance of Freedom
2 Labor and the Ten-Hour System
3 Walt Whitman: Higher Progress at Mid-century
4 The Eight-Hour Day: Labor from the Civil War to the 1920s
5 Infrastructures of Freedom
6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream
7 Challenges to Full-Time, Full Employment
8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment
9 Higher Progress Fades, Holdouts Persist
10 The Eclipse of Higher Progress and the Emergence of Overwork
Notes
Index