Description
Product ID: | 9780674979512 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Time for Things |
Subtitle: | Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption |
Authors: | Author: Dr Stephen D. Rosenberg |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social issues & processes, Social theory, Popular economics, Economic history, Social theory, Popular economics, Economic history |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Economists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we continue toiling away and use the proceeds to buy, buy, buy. Why? Stephen Rosenberg offers a novel theory, arguing that workers have learned to treat goods as stores of potential free time, legitimating endless wage work. |
Imprint Name: | Harvard University Press |
Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-01-12 |