Journal article
Walt Whitman's "Higher Progress" and Shorter Work Hours
Walt Whitman quarterly review, Vol.26(2), pp.92-109
10/01/2008
DOI: 10.13008/2153-3695.1867
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Abstract
Analyzes Democratic Vistas and other writings to demonstrate that part of Whitman’s conception of “higher progress” involved the attainment of freedom beyond basic necessities in order to gain “liberty’s ultimate challenge”—for “citizens to fill the purest of freedoms with activities that were complete in themselves”; goes on to track Whitman’s involvement in the movement to reduce working hours, increase leisure, and develop “labor-saving machines,” all of which formed “the obvious practical link between increasing material wealth and ‘higher progress’”; concludes by considering the influence of Whitman’s “higher progress” on John Maynard Keynes and on economists and historians of labor over the past fifty years.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Walt Whitman's "Higher Progress" and Shorter Work Hours
- Creators
- Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Walt Whitman quarterly review, Vol.26(2), pp.92-109
- DOI
- 10.13008/2153-3695.1867
- ISSN
- 0737-0679
- eISSN
- 2153-3695
- Publisher
- Dept. of English, The University of Iowa; Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Date published
- 10/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- Health, Sport, and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984267243602771
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