Author Sebastian De Grazia notes that modern demands have absorbed much of the extra time with the decline in hours of the workweek from 70 in 1850 to 39 and de

Examines the profound transformations in the nature and organization of work that are occurring worldwide, with potentially far reaching social and economic con

It is a platitude that most people, as they say, 'work to live' rather than 'live to work.' And in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, work wee

Between Work and Leisure aims to debunk the prevailing myth that work and leisure are separate and mutually antagonistic spheres of life. Stebbins shows that a

If we don’t get Sunday right, we won’t get Monday—or any day of the workweek—right. The divided life is a temptation so built into our society, we may n