| Doing Nothing Contributor(s): Lutz, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 086547737X ISBN-13: 9780865477377 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Moving with verve and wit through a series of fascinating case studies that illuminate the changing place of leisure in the American republic, this text revises the way readers understand slackers and work itself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
| Dewey: 174 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 380 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of hardworking respectability. Whenever the world of labor changes in significant ways, the pulpits, politicians, and pedagogues ring with exhortations of the value of work, and the slackers answer with a strenuous call of their own: "To do nothing," as Oscar Wilde said, "is the most difficult thing in the world." Moving with verve and wit through a series of case studies that illuminate the changing place of leisure in the American republic, Doing Nothing revises the way we understand slackers and work itself. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lutz, Tom: - Tom Lutz 's previous books include Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears; American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History; and Cosmopolitan Vistas. He lives in Los Angeles and Iowa City. |