Free Time
The Forgotten American Dream
Published on 11. January 2013
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-1-4399-0714-6 (ISBN)
Description
A magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States
Reviews / Votes
"Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt's new book could hardly be more timely. His central theme--that the American dream once was not confined merely to ever growing levels of abundance--is all the more relevant in an era of climate science denial and anti-environmentalism of various sorts. . . I had a hard time putting Free Time down."--John Buell, author of Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4399-0714-6 (9781439907146)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt is a Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Iowa. He is also the author of Kellogg's Six-Hour Day and Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (both Temple).
Content
Preface
Introduction: Higher Progress-the Forgotten American Dream
1 The Kingdom of God in America: Progress as the Advance of Freedom
2 Labor and the Ten-Hour System
3 Walt Whitman: Higher Progress at Mid-century
4 The Eight-Hour Day: Labor from the Civil War to the 1920s
5 Infrastructures of Freedom
6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Dream
7 Challenges to Full-Time, Full Employment
8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment
9 Higher Progress Fades, Holdouts Persist
10 The Eclipse of Higher Progress and the Emergence of Overwork
Notes
Index
Introduction: Higher Progress-the Forgotten American Dream
1 The Kingdom of God in America: Progress as the Advance of Freedom
2 Labor and the Ten-Hour System
3 Walt Whitman: Higher Progress at Mid-century
4 The Eight-Hour Day: Labor from the Civil War to the 1920s
5 Infrastructures of Freedom
6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Dream
7 Challenges to Full-Time, Full Employment
8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment
9 Higher Progress Fades, Holdouts Persist
10 The Eclipse of Higher Progress and the Emergence of Overwork
Notes
Index