Time, Work and Leisure - Life Changes in England Since 1700

Informationen zum Autor Hugh Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Kent Klappentext This 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. Zusammenfassung 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 about Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Time and society in the eighteenth century3. Leisure preference and its critics, 1700-18504. Leisure and class, 1750-18505. Work time in decline, 1830-19706. Men, work and leisure, 1850-19707. The leisured class, 1840-19708. Towards 'work-life balance'ConclusionSelect bibliographyIndex

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Hugh Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Kent

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Cunningham, Cunningham Hugh
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Richards (Editor), Richards Jeffrey (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9780719085208
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8520-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Studies in Popular Culture; Studies in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; England, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural history