A Right to Be Lazy? Busyness in Retrospective.
Part of a special issue on busyness. The writer reviews the history of work time and leisure. Many people in the late 19th century, including Marx's son-in-law Paul Lafargue, believed that busyness was a false doctrine of modern capitalism and that overwork caused production gluts and the irration...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 263 - 287 |
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New School for Social Research
Summer 2005
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