Free Time : The Forgotten American Dream /

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Has the "American Dream" become an unrealistic utopian fantasy, or have we simply forgotten what we are working for? The author examines the way that progress, once defined as more of the good things in life as well as more free time to enjoy them, has come to be understood only as economi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hunnicutt, Benjamin
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Labor & Workers' Economics.
Business & Economics.
Leisure.
Hours of labor.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
leisure.
Loisir.
Loisir > États-Unis.
Leisure time.
Leisure > United States.
Hours of labor > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The kingdom of God in America : progress as the advance of freedom
  • Labor and the ten-hour system
  • Walt Whitman's higher progress
  • The eight-hour day : labor from the civil war to the 1920s; shorter hours and higher wages
  • Infrastructures of freedom
  • Labor and Franklin Roosevelt's new dream
  • Challenges to "full-time, full employment"
  • Labor turns from shorter hours to "full-time, full employment"
  • Higher progress fades : holdouts persists
  • The eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of overwork.

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