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Century of the leisured masses : entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America / David George Surdam ; preface by Ken McCormick

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Surdam, David G. (David George)
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Physical Description
xviii, 305 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Definitions of Leisure -- 2.History and Attitudes Regarding Leisure -- 3.The Economics of Leisure -- 4.Less Work, More Play, and the Rise of Leisure -- 5.The Rise of Expenditures on Leisure Goods and Services -- 6.Patterns in Leisure for the Young and the Old -- 7.The Interaction of Leisure and Public Health -- 8.The Changing Workplace -- 9.The Transformation of the Domestic Economy -- 10.Commercialized Leisure in the Early 1900s -- 11.Mass Entertainment to the Fore -- 12.Improved Infrastructure and Leisure -- 13.Government and Leisure -- 14.Antitrust Issues and the Leisure Industries.
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ISBN
9780190211578 paperback
0190211571
9780190211561 hardcover
0190211563 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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