Description
Book SynopsisA magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States
Trade Review "Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt's new book could hardly be more timely. His central theme--that the American dream once was not confined merely to ever growing levels of abundance--is all the more relevant in an era of climate science denial and anti-environmentalism of various sorts. . . I had a hard time putting
Free Time down."--John Buell, author of
Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age ?
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Table of ContentsPreface
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
