| Contents |
Introduction: higher progress -- the forgotten American dream -- The kingdom of God in America : progress as the advance of freedom -- Labor and the ten-hour system -- Walt Whitman: higher progress at mid-century -- The eight-hour day : labor from the civil war to the 1920s -- Infrastructures of freedom -- Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's new dream -- Challenges to full-time, full employment -- Labor turns from shorter hours to full-time, full employment -- Higher progress fades : holdouts persist -- The eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of overwork. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2012025886 |
| ISBN | 9781439907146 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1439907145 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781439907153 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1439907153 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781439907160 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 1439907161 (e-book) |
