Free Time

Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt is a Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Iowa. He is also the author of Kellogg's Six-Hour Day and Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (both Temple).

"Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt's new book could hardly be more timely.  His central theme--that the American dream once was not confined merely to ever growing levels of abundance--is all the more relevant in an era of climate science denial and anti-environmentalism of various sorts. . .  I had a hard time putting Free Time down."--John Buell, author of Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age??

• PrefaceIntroduction: Higher Progress-the Forgotten American Dream1 The Kingdom of God in America: Progress as the Advance of Freedom2 Labor and the Ten-Hour System3 Walt Whitman: Higher Progress at Mid-century4 The Eight-Hour Day: Labor from the Civil War to the 1920s5 Infrastructures of Freedom6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream7 Challenges to Full-Time, Full Employment8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment9 Higher Progress Fades, Holdouts Persist10 The Eclipse of Higher Progress and the Emergence of OverworkNotesIndex