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Work without end : abandoning shorter hours for the right to work / Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Labor and social changePublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1988.Description: x, 404 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0877225206 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.25/7/0973 20
LOC classification:
  • HD5124 .H86 1988
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HD5124.H86 1988 1 Available 33710000058151

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.