Work without end : abandoning shorter hours for the right to work / Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt.
Material type: TextSeries: Labor and social changePublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1988.Description: x, 404 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0877225206 (alk. paper)
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- HD5124 .H86 1988
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 317-389.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Introduction -- The century of shorter hours and work reduction -- The new economic gospel of consumption -- Leisure for labor -- Leisure for culture and progress -- Shorter hours in the early depression -- FDR counters shorter hours -- Idleness reemployed : public works and deficit spending -- Social security and the Fair Labor Standards Act -- Intellectuals and reformers abandon shorter hours -- A case in point : scientists -- The age of work.