Can I read Time, Work and Leisure : Life Changes in England Since 1700 on EtoBox?

Time, Work and Leisure : Life Changes in England Since 1700 by Cunningham, Hugh is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Time, Work and Leisure : Life Changes in England Since 1700 about?

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 aboutThis book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the ‘leisure preference’ of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines how trade union action was critical in achieving the decline; how class structured the experience of leisure; how male identity was shaped by both work and leisure; how, in a society that placed high value on work, a ‘leisured class’ was nevertheless at the apex of political and social power - until it became thought of as ‘the idle rich’. Coinciding with the decline in working hours, two further tranches of time were marked out as properly without work: childhood and retirement. Accessible, wide-ranging and occasionally polemical, this book provides the first history of how we have imagined and used time

Who reads Time, Work and Leisure : Life Changes in England Since 1700?

Author

Cunningham, Hugh

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719085208

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, History, Management