Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The century of shorter hours and work reduction
  • The new economic gospel of consumption
  • Leisure for labor
  • Leisure for culture and progress
  • Shorter hours in the early depression
  • FDR counters shorter hours
  • Idleness reemployed : public works and deficit spending
  • Social security and the Fair Labor Standards Act
  • Intellectuals and reformers abandon shorter hours
  • A case in point : scientists
  • The age of work.