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Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2006-05-16
- Pages
- 363
- ISBN
- 9780865476509
- Book Title
- Doing Nothing : a History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Self-Help, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Popular Culture, Motivational & Inspirational, United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 22.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 363 Pages
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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, a chorus of slackers has held the pretensions of hardworking respectability up to scorn. Reviled by many, heroic to others, these layabouts stretch and yawn their way through life and literature while the rest of society sweats. Their history is nothing less than the history of labor in negative. From Benjamin Franklin's "air baths" to Jack Kerouac's dharma bums to Generation X slackers and beyond, the case studies in Doing Nothing prove that anti-work ethic proponents have held an underrecognized place in modem culture. With verve and wit, Tom Lutz illuminates the changing place of leisure in America and, in doing so, shows us idleness (and work) in a new light. Book jacket.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0865476500
ISBN-13
9780865476509
eBay Product ID (ePID)
49218409
Product Key Features
Book Title
Doing Nothing : a History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Culture, Motivational & Inspirational, United States / General
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Self-Help, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
363 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bj1498.L88 2006
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Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-027230
Dewey Decimal
174
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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