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Time, work and leisure

Time, work and leisure

Time, Work and Leisure

Hugh Cunningham

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Manchester University Press (P648)
Año de edición:
2016
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Historia general y mundial
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9781784993559
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Explores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come about

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