Time, Work and Leisure
«Time, 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»
This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the 'leisure preference' of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. Les mer
Accessible, wide-ranging and occasionally polemical, this book provides the first history of how we have imagined and used time. -- .
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 240
- ISBN
- 9781784993559
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«Time, 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»