Free Time: the Forgotten American Dream
Has the "American Dream" become an unrealistic utopian fantasy, or have we simply forgotten what we are working for? The author examines the way that progress, once defined as more of the good things in life as well as more free time to enjoy them, has come to be understood only as economic growth and more work, forevermore. The author provides an incisive intellectual, cultural, and political history of the original "American Dream" from the colonial days to the present. Taking his cue from Wa…
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- Full title :Free Time : the Forgotten American Dream / Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt.
Summary
Has the "American Dream" become an unrealistic utopian fantasy, or have we simply forgotten what we are working for? The author examines the way that progress, once defined as more of the good things in life as well as more free time to enjoy them, has come to be understood only as economic growth and more work, forevermore. The author provides an incisive intellectual, cultural, and political history of the original "American Dream" from the colonial days to the present. Taking his cue from Walt Whitman's "higher progress," he follows the traces of that dream, cataloging the myriad voices that prepared for and lived in an opening "realm of freedom." This book reminds Americans of the forgotten, best part of the "American Dream" - that more and more of our lives might be lived freely, with an enriching family life, with more time to enjoy nature, friendship, and the adventures of the mind and of the spirit.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Temple University Press
- Place of Publication:Philadelphia PA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (251 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781439907160, 1439907161
- oclc:ocn823723363
- LC Classification:HD5124 .H858 2013
- Dewey Decimal:331.25/760973
Table of Contents
The kingdom of God in America : progress as the advance of freedom -- Labor and the ten-hour system -- Walt Whitman's higher progress -- The eight-hour day : labor from the civil war to the 1920s; shorter hours and higher wages -- Infrastructures of freedom -- Labor and Franklin Roosevelt's new dream -- Challenges to "full-time, full employment" -- Labor turns from shorter hours to "full-time, full employment" -- Higher progress fades : holdouts persists -- The eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of overwork.
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