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Book SynopsisExplores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come about
Trade ReviewTime, Work and Leisure is a pleasure to read, and should find a wide audience, including undergraduate students and even policymakers. Cunningham strikes a good balance between descriptive narrative and a Thompsonian use of a wider range of primary sources, from poetry to first-hand narratives to employer screeds, workers' time-diaries, and government statistics. Moreover, he does an excellent job historically contextualizing present concerns about how we spend our time. -- Jamie Bronstein. Labour/Le Travail, Volume 76
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Time and society in the eighteenth century 3. Leisure preference and its critics, 1700-1850 4. Leisure and class, 1750-1850 5. Work time in decline, 1830-1970 6. Men, work and leisure, 1850-1970 7. The leisured class, 1840-1970 8. Towards 'work-life balance' Conclusion Select bibliography Index
