Stephen D. Rosenberg (Author)
Harvard University Press
Physical Details: 346
Language: English
Time for Things seeks an answer to the question of why, in mature industrial capitalist societies, increasing productivity has tended to get used to increase output and consumption as opposed to reducing the burden of work. Put simply, why do we live in a world so full of goods, many of which have questionable or marginal value, and (by comparison) so lacking in free time? (Publisher)
...MoreReview Chris Rojek (Autumn 2021) Review of "Time for things : Labor, leisure, and the rise of mass consumption". Business History Review (pp. 611-613).
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