Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work

by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

Book Overview

An extraordinarily informative scholarly history of the debate over working hours from 1920 to 1940. --New York Times Book ReviewFor more than a century preceding the Great Depression, work hours were steadily reduced. Intellectuals, labor leaders, politicians, and workers saw this reduction in work as authentic progress and the resulting increase in leisure time as a cultural advance. Benjamin Hunnicutt examines the period from 1920 to 1940 during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877225206
• ISBN13: 9780877225201
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.