Author: Ives Mitchell HurryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Rational Amusement for Leisure Hours ..
Author: Ives Mitchell HurryRational amusement for leisure hours; consisting of interesting tales for the mental improvement of youth. Illustrated with a variety of engravings on wood. By Mrs. Hurry
Author: Mrs. Ives HurryRational Amusement for Leisure Hours
Author: Mrs. Ives HurryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Rational Amusement for Leisure ..
Author: Ives Mitchell HurryThe Leisure Hour
Author: The Leisure Hour Monthly Library
Author: The Leisure Hour
Author: Leisure Hours with Good Authors; and Musings on the Book of Nature
Author: John C. SalmonPublisher:
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Killing Time
Author: Scott C. MartinPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822970430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Scott C. Martin examines leisure as a “contested cultural space” in which nineteenth-century Americans articulated and developed ideas about ethnicity, class, gender, and community. This new perspective demonstrates how leisure and sociability mediated the transition from an agricultural to an industrial society. Martin argues persuasively that southwestern Pennsylvanians used leisure activities to create identities and define values in a society being transformed by market expansion. The transportation revolution brought new commercial entertainments and recreational opportunities but also fragmented and privatized customary patterns of communal leisure. By using leisure as a window on the rapid changes sweeping through the region, Martin shows how southwestern Pennsylvanians used voluntary associations, private parties, and public gatherings to construct social identities better suited to their altered circumstances. The prosperous middle class devised amusements to distinguish them from workers who, in turn, resisted reformersÆ attempts to constrain their use of free time. Ethnic and racial minorities used holiday observances and traditional celebrations to define their place in American society, while women tested the boundaries of the domestic sphere through participation in church fairs, commercial recreation, and other leisure activities. This study illuminates the cultural history of the region and offers broader insights into perceptions of free time, leisure, and community in antebellum America.
Time, work and leisure
Author: Hugh CunninghamPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526112280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
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.