Free time
Subtitle: the forgotten American Dream
By: Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781439907146; 9781439907153; 9781439907160
Subjects: Hours of labor; Leisure
Description: "Hunnicutt examines the way that progress, once defined as more of the good things in life as well as more free time to enjoy them, has come to be understood only as economic growth and more work, forevermore."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The kingdom of God in America : progress as the advance of freedom; title: Labor and the ten-hour system; title: Walt Whitman's higher progress; title: The eight-hour day : labor from the civil war to the 1920s; shorter hours and higher wages; title: Infrastructures of freedom; title: Labor and Franklin Roosevelt's new dream; title: Challenges to "full-time, full employment"; title: Labor turns from shorter hours to "full-time, full employment"; title: Higher progress fades : holdouts persists; title: The eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of overwork.