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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...

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Published in:Social Research Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 263 - 287
Main Author: Cross, Gary
Format: Article
Published: New School for Social Research Summer 2005
Subjects:
Right to be lazy [Treatise]: Lafargue, Paul
Sedentary behavior
Industrial revolution
Working hours
Leisure
Philosophy
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