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- Book Title
- Free Time
- Publication Name
- Free Time : the History of an Elusive Ideal
- Title
- Free Time
- Subtitle
- The History of an Elusive Ideal
- ISBN-10
- 1479813079
- EAN
- 9781479813070
- ISBN
- 9781479813070
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 13/02/2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Genre
- History
- Item Weight
- 23.6 Oz
- Subject
- Labor & Industrial Relations, Social History, General, Economics / General
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics, History, Political Science
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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The history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home era Free time, one of life's most precious things, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the park for hours to "doomscrolling" on social media for thirty minutes? Today, despite the promise of modern industrialization, many people experience both a scarcity of free time and a disappointment in it. Free Time offers a broad historical explanation of why our affluent society does not afford more time away from work and why that time is often unsatisfying. Gary S. Cross explores the cultural, social, economic, and political history, especially of the past 250 years to understand the roots of our conceptions of free time and its use. By the end of the nineteenth century, a common expectation was that industrial innovations would lead to a progressive reduction of work time and a subsequent rise in free time devoted to self-development and social engagement. However, despite significant changes in the early twentieth century, both goals were frustrated, thus leading to the contemporary dilemma. Cross touches on leisure of all kinds, from peasant festivals and aristocratic pleasure gardens to amusement parks, movie theaters and organized sports to internet surfing, and even the use of alcohol and drugs. This wide-ranging cultural and social history explores the industrial-era origins of our modern obsession with work and productivity, but also the historical efforts to liberate time from work and cultivate free time for culture. Insightful and informative, this book is sure to help you make sense of your own relationship to free time.
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Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
1479813079
ISBN-13
9781479813070
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6059128262
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Free Time : the History of an Elusive Ideal
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Labor & Industrial Relations, Social History, General, Economics / General
Publication Year
2024
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2023-003746
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Hd4904.7.C76 2024
Reviews
"In 1962 Herbert Marcuse wrote that technology "threatens . . . the reversal of the relation between free time and working time . . . [making likely] the possibility of working time becoming marginal . . . . The result would be a radical transvaluation of values . . . . Advanced industrial society is in permanent mobilization against this possibility." Free Time is a magnificent account of that "mobilization." His is one of the best and most thorough explanations of why the shorter hours process ended during the 20th century after a century of progress, and why the accompanying expectation of what Walt Whitman called "higher progress" has been nearly forgotten.", Free Time , like all important books, provides us with a narrative that both establishes indispensable new perspectives and invites reflections that go beyond them... [Cross's] book helps us recognize the less than innocent influences that have captured time that had once been painstakingly liberated from work and converted it into little more than consumer activity., A sweeping and thought-provoking evaluation of the history of how people use leisure time, and why these ways often fall short in the present day., A gifted stylist, a master researcher, Gary Cross is the leading authority on the most lasting and influential -ism of the twentieth century: consumerism. No one has written with such insight into the origins, evolution, nature, meaning, and appeal of consumer culture. Written in an engaging and highly accessible style, and addressing a topic of widespread public concern with an intellectual seriousness that is missing in works of pop psychology and sociology, Free Time is rich and highly original., Cross's compelling history of free time illuminates the economic, political and cultural causes that led us to this place., Free Time sheds light on why so many of us feel our free time is unfulfilling (let alone, scarce). Cross is a truly innovative scholar with remarkable range, and an admirably clear writer who is able to present complex ideas in an accessible way; he deftly addresses issues that are intimately connected to each other but are all too often treated separately.
Copyright Date
2024
Dewey Decimal
306.4/812
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20230201
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