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Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC 9780865476509 Doing Nothing: A History Of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, And Bums In America
Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC 9780865476509 Doing Nothing: A History Of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, And Bums In America

    Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America

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    • Vendor: Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC
    • Product Type: Book
    • Barcode: 9780865476509
    • Condition: New
    • Edition: 1
    • Format: BOOK
    • Binding: hardcover
    • Author: Tom Lutz
    • Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
    • Published: December 31, 2005
    • ISBN 13: 9780865476509
    • SKU: M1608
    DESCRIPTION
    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, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of hardworking respectability. Reviled by many, heroes to others, these layabouts stretch and yawn while the rest of society worries and sweats. Whenever the world of labor changes in significant ways, the pulpits, politicians, and pedagogues ring with exhortations of the value of work, and the slackers answer with a strenuous call of their own: "To do nothing," as Oscar Wilde said, "is the most difficult thing in the world." From Benjamin Franklin's "air baths" to Jack Kerouac's "dharma bums," Generation-X slackers, and beyond, anti-work-ethic proponents have held a central place in modern culture.

    Moving with verve and wit through a series of fascinating case studies that illuminate the changing place of leisure in the American republic, Doing Nothing revises the way we understand slackers and work itself.

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