Doing Nothing |
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Author:
| Lutz, Tom |
ISBN: | 978-0-86547-737-7 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2007 |
Publisher: | Henry Holt & Company
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Imprint: | Henry Holt & Company |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $36.99AUD $42.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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," asOscar 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 Nothingrevises the way we understand slackers and work itself.