Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream

Contents

contents preface vii introduction: higher progress—the Forgotten american dream 1 1 the Kingdom of God in america: progress as the advance of Freedom 13 2 labor and the ten-hour system 26 3 Walt Whitman: higher progress at mid-century 48 4 the eight-hour day: labor from the Civil War to the 1920s 70 5 infrastructures of Freedom 95 6 labor and Franklin delano roosevelt’s new dream 109 7 Challenges to Full-time, Full employment 122 8 labor turns from shorter hours to Full-time, Full employment 148 9 higher progress Fades, holdouts persist 166 10 the eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of Overwork 183 notes 191 index 227 ...