Book
Free time: the forgotten American Dream
Temple University Press
2013
Abstract
Contents: Introduction: higher progress-- the forgotten American dream -- The kingdom of God in America : progress as the advance of freedom -- Labor and the ten-hour system -- Walt Whitman: higher progress at mid-century -- The eight-hour day : labor from the civil war to the 1920s -- Infrastructures of freedom -- Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's new dream -- Challenges to full-time, full employment -- Labor turns from shorter hours to full-time, full employment -- Higher progress fades : holdouts persist -- The eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of overwork.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Free time: the forgotten American Dream
- Creators
- Benjamin K Hunnicutt - University of Iowa, Health and Human Physiology
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Temple University Press; Philadelphia
- ISBN
- 9781439907146; 9781439907160
- Number of pages
- xi, 237 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Health and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9983595432402771
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