Work without end : abandoning shorter hours for the right to work /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press, 1988.
Series:Labor and social change.
Subjects:
Hours of labor > United States > History.
Leisure > United States > History.
Recreation.
Employment > history
Leisure Activities
Recreation
Horaires de travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
Loisir > États-Unis > Histoire.
Loisirs.
recreation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
Hours of labor
Leisure
Arbeitszeit
Geschichte
Geschichte (1920-1940)
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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