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Free time the forgotten American Dream

Title
Free time [electronic resource] : the forgotten American Dream / Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt.
Author
Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline.
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.

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Description
1 online resource (xi, 237 p.)
Uniform Title
Free time (Online)
Alternative Title
Free time (Online)
Subject
  • Hours of labor > United States
  • Leisure > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2012025886
OCLC
ssj0000814679
Author
Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline.
Title
Free time [electronic resource] : the forgotten American Dream / Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt.
Imprint
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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