Doing Nothing

Name: Doing Nothing
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ISBN: 9780865477377

ISBN-10: 086547737X

ISBN-13: 9780865477377

Edition: 2007

Authors: Tom Lutz

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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, " as Oscar 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,…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Cody on the Couch



The Idler and His Works



Loungers, Romantics, and Rip Van Winkle



Loafers, Communists, Drinkers, and Bohemians



Nerve Cases, Saunterers, Tramps, and Flaneurs



Sports, Flappers, Babbitts, and Bums



Beats, Nonconformists, Playboys, and Delinquents



Draft Dodgers, Surfers, TV Beatniks, and Hippie Communards



Slackers


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