{"product_id":"work-without-end-9780877227632","title":"Work Without End","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the period from 1920 to 1940 during which the shorter hour movement ended and the drive for economic expansion through increased work took over. This book traces the political, and social dialogues that changed the American concept of progress from dreams of leisure in which to pursue the higher things in life to an obsession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"An extraordinarily informative scholarly history of the debate over working hours from 1920 to 1940.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eWork Without End\u003ci\u003e presents a compelling history of the rise and fall of the 40-hour work week, explains bow Americans became trapped in a prison of work that allows little room for family, bobbies or civic participation and suggests bow they can free themselves from relentless overwork. [This book] is a sober reconsideration of a topic that is critical to America’s future. It suggests that progress doesn’t mean much if there is not time for love as well as work, and liberation is an empty achievement if the work it frees one to do is truly without end.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Hunnicutt, with this excellent book, becomes the first United States historian to examine fully why this momentous change occurred.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction  1. The Century of Shorter Hours and Work Reduction  2. The New Economic Gospel of Consumption  3. Leisure for Labor  4. Leisure for Culture and Progress  5. Shorter Hours in the Early Depression  6. FDR Counters Shorter Hours  7. Idleness Reemployed: Public Works and Deficit Spending  8. Social Security and the Fair Labor Standards Act  9. Intellectuals and Reformers Abandon Shorter Hours  10. A Case in Point: Scientists  11. The Age of Work  Notes  Index","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406434902359,"sku":"9780877227632","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780877227632.jpg?v=1730495798","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/work-without-end-9780877227632","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}