Time for Things : : Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption / / Stephen D. Rosenberg.
Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans have come to prefer consumption to leisure.Productivity has increased steadily since the mid-twentieth century, yet Americans today work rough...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ONE. Introduction
- TWO. The Puzzle
- THREE. Empirical Pattern in the United States
- FOUR. A Theory of Mass Consumption as Wage-Labor Commensuration
- FIVE. Economic Fairness and the Wage Labor Background
- SIX. Standardization of Consumption, Work, and Wages
- SEVEN. Standardizing Utility: Brands and Commercial and Legal Warranties
- EIGHT. Product Testing and Product Regularization
- NINE. Moral Panic about Utility: Planned Obsolescence
- TEN. Conclusion: Capitalism, Commensuration, and the Normativity of Economic Action
- APPENDIX 1
- APPENDIX 2
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index