{"product_id":"free-time-9781439907146","title":"Free Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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\u003ci\u003e Free Time\u003c\/i\u003e down.\"--John Buell, author of \u003ci\u003ePolitics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ?\u003cbr\u003e ?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Higher Progress—the Forgotten American Dream\u003cbr\u003e1 The Kingdom of God in America: Progress as the Advance of Freedom\u003cbr\u003e2 Labor and the Ten-Hour System\u003cbr\u003e3 Walt Whitman: Higher Progress at Mid-century\u003cbr\u003e4 The Eight-Hour Day: Labor from the Civil War to the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e5 Infrastructures of Freedom\u003cbr\u003e6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream\u003cbr\u003e7 Challenges to Full-Time, Full Employment\u003cbr\u003e8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment\u003cbr\u003e9 Higher Progress Fades, Holdouts Persist\u003cbr\u003e10 The Eclipse of Higher Progress and the Emergence of Overwork\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083970486615,"sku":"9781439907146","price":64.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439907146.jpg?v=1725550616","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/free-time-9781439907146","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}