Free time : the forgotten American Dream
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Free time : the forgotten American Dream
Temple University Press, 2013
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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"