Hugh Cunningham

Time, work and leisure (eBook, ePUB)

Life changes in England since 1700

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come about

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526112286
• Artikelnr.: 48796227

Autorenporträt

Hugh Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Time and society in the eighteenth century 3. Leisure preference and its critics
1700-1850 4. Leisure and class
1750-1850 5. Work time in decline
1830-1970 6. Men
work and leisure
1850-1970 7. The leisured class
1840-1970 8. Towards 'work-life balance' Conclusion Select bibliography Index