Hugh Cunningham

Time, work and leisure (eBook, ePUB)

Life changes in England since 1700

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the 'leisure preference' of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines how trade union action was critical in achieving the decline; how class structured the experience of leisure; how male identity was shaped by both work and leisure; how, in a society that placed high value on work, a 'leisured class' was nevertheless at the apex of political and social power - until it became thought of as 'the idle rich'. Coinciding with the decline in working hours, two further tranches of time were marked out as properly without work: childhood and retirement.

Accessible, wide-ranging and occasionally polemical, this book provides the first history of how we have imagined and used time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526112286
• Artikelnr.: 48796227

Autorenporträt

Hugh Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Time and society in the eighteenth century 3. Leisure preference and its critics
1700-1850 4. Leisure and class
1750-1850 5. Work time in decline
1830-1970 6. Men
work and leisure
1850-1970 7. The leisured class
1840-1970 8. Towards 'work-life balance' Conclusion Select bibliography Index