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Author Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline.

Title Free time : the forgotten American Dream / Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt.

Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  331.25 Hunnicutt    ---  Available
Contents 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.
Subject Leisure.
Hours of labor.
ISBN 9781439907153

 
    
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