Leisure Hours

Author : Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521313971
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Hours for What We Will written by Roy Rosenzweig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts the author takes the reader to the saloons, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where American industrial workers spent their leisure hours, to explore the nature of working-class culture and class relations during this era.

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Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leisure Hour written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donna Harrington-Lueker
Publisher : UMass + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1613766319
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books for Idle Hours written by Donna Harrington-Lueker and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare. Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading—especially for young women—publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.

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Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leisure Hour Monthly Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen D. Rosenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674979516
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time for Things written by Stephen D. Rosenberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans have come to prefer consumption to leisure. Productivity has increased steadily since the mid-twentieth century, yet Americans today work roughly as much as they did then: forty hours per week. We have witnessed, during this same period, relentless growth in consumption. This pattern represents a striking departure from the preceding century, when working hours fell precipitously. It also contradicts standard economic theory, which tells us that increasing consumption yields diminishing marginal utility, and empirical research, which shows that work is a significant source of discontent. So why do we continue to trade our time for more stuff? Time for Things offers a novel explanation for this puzzle. Stephen Rosenberg argues that, during the twentieth century, workers began to construe consumer goods as stores of potential free time to rationalize the exchange of their labor for a wage. For example, when a worker exchanges his labor for an automobile, he acquires a duration of free activity that can be held in reserve, counterbalancing the unfree activity represented by work. This understanding of commodities as repositories of hypothetical utility was made possible, Rosenberg suggests, by the advent of durable consumer goods—cars, washing machines, refrigerators—as well as warranties, brands, chain stores, and product-testing magazines, which assured workers that the goods they purchased would not be subject to rapid obsolescence. This theory clarifies perplexing aspects of behavior under industrial capitalism—the urgency to spend earnings on things, the preference to own rather than rent consumer goods—as well as a variety of historical developments, including the coincident rise of mass consumption and the legitimation of wage labor.

Author : Ernie John Zelinski
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ISBN 13 : 9780969419419
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Not Working written by Ernie John Zelinski and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice on achieving success and satisfaction in life away from the work place.

Author : Oliver Burkeman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374715246
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Thousand Weeks written by Oliver Burkeman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

Author : John Trevor Haworth
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415250580
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work and Leisure written by John Trevor Haworth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts in a wide range of disciplines concerned with work, leisure and well-being to discuss key, topical issues.

Author : United States. Work Projects Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisure-time Leadership written by United States. Work Projects Administration and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Commercial Gas Association
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Total Pages : 758 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by National Commercial Gas Association and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: