Free time : the forgotten American Dream

Author(s)

• Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline

Bibliographic Information

Free time : the forgotten American Dream

Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

Temple University Press, 2013

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States

Table of Contents

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB1299652X
• ISBN:
  • 9781439907153
• LCCN: 2012025886
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 237 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD5124
  • DC23 : 331.25/760973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hours of labor -- United States
  • LCSH : Leisure -- United States