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Century of the leisured masses : entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America / David George Surdam ; preface by Ken McCormick.
LIBRA HD4904.6 .S867 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Surdam, David G. (David George), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leisure--United States--History--20th century.
- Leisure.
- Leisure class--History--20th century.
- Leisure class.
- Leisure industry--United States--History--20th century.
- Leisure industry.
- History.
- United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
- United States.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--20th century.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 305 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Economists use many measures of well-being, including gains in per capita income, health, and happiness. The increased amount of leisure time per week across people's lifetimes, however, has been an unsung aspect of the improved standard of living in America, In Century of the Leisured Masses, economist David George Surdam explores the growing presence of leisure activities in Americans lives and how this development emerged throughout the twentieth century. This growth of leisure resulted from a comabination of growing productivity, better health, and technological advances. Surdam has comprehensively documented and examine the developments in leisure throughout the past century in a meticulously researched and insightful book. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Definitions of Leisure 8
- 2 History and Attitudes Regarding Leisure 17
- 3 The Economics of Leisure 33
- 4 Less Work, More Play and the Rise of Leisure 44
- 5 The Rise of Expenditures on Leisure Goods and Services 64
- 6 Patterns in Leisure for the Young and the Old 86
- 7 The Interaction of Leisure and Public Health 108
- 8 The Changing Workplace 117
- 9 The Transformation of the Domestic Economy 130
- 10 Commercialized Leisure in the Early 1900s 155
- 11 Mass Entertainment to the Fore 174
- 12 Improved Infrastructure and Leisure 200
- 13 Government and Leisure 215
- 14 Antitrust Issues and the Leisure Industries 223.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190211578
- 0190211571
- 9780190211561
- 0190211563
- OCLC:
- 883748491
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