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Free time

Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline.

Free time the forgotten American Dream / [electronic resource] : Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (236 p.)

Includes bibliographical references.

The kingdom of God in America : progress as the advance of freedom -- Labor and the ten-hour system -- Walt Whitman's higher progress -- The eight-hour day : labor from the civil war to the 1920s; shorter hours and higher wages -- Infrastructures of freedom -- Labor and Franklin Roosevelt's new dream -- Challenges to "full-time, full employment" -- Labor turns from shorter hours to "full-time, full employment" -- Higher progress fades : holdouts persists -- The eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of overwork.

9781439907160


Leisure--United States.
Hours of labor--United States.


Electronic books.

HD5124 / .H858 2013

331.25/760973