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Time, work and leisure : life changes in England since 1700
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cunningham, Hugh, Author.
- Series:
- Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
- Studies in popular culture Time, work and leisure
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leisure--History--England.
- Leisure.
- Work-life balance--History--England.
- Work-life balance.
- England--Social conditions.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hugh Cunningham traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the 'leisure preference' of male workers in the 18th century, through the increase in working hours in the later 18th and early 19th centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- General editor's introduction
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Time and society in the eighteenth century
- 3 Leisure preference and its critics, 1700-1850
- 4 Leisure and class, 1750-1850
- 5 Work time in decline, 1830-1970
- 6 Men, work and leisure, 1850-1970
- 7 The leisured class, 1840-1970
- 8 Towards 'work-life balance'
- 9 Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78170-681-6
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