Time for things : labor, leisure, and the rise of mass consumption /
"Time for Things seeks an answer to the question of why, in mature industrial capitalist societies, increasing productivity has tended to get used to increase output and consumption as opposed to reducing the burden of work. Put simply, why do we live in a world so full of goods, many of which...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2021.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Time for Things seeks an answer to the question of why, in mature industrial capitalist societies, increasing productivity has tended to get used to increase output and consumption as opposed to reducing the burden of work. Put simply, why do we live in a world so full of goods, many of which have questionable or marginal value, and (by comparison) so lacking in free time?"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674250543 0674250540 9780674250529 0674250524 9780674250536 0674250532 |