Download or read book Spectatoritis written by Jay Bryan Nash and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The March of Spare Time written by Susan Currell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The March of Spare Time, Susan Currell explores how and why leisure became an object of such intense interest, concern, and surveillance during the Great Depression. As Americans experienced record high levels of unemployment, leisure was thought by reformers, policy makers, social scientists, physicians, labor unions, and even artists to be both a cause of and a solution to society's most entrenched ills. Of all the problems that faced America in the 1930s, only leisure seemed to offer a panacea for the rest. The problem centered on divided opinions over what constituted proper versus improper use of leisure time. On the one hand, sociologists and reformers excoriated as improper such leisure activities as gambling, loafing, and drinking. On the other, the Works Progress Administration and the newly professionalized recreation experts promoted proper leisure activities such as reading, sports, and arts and crafts. Such attention gave rise to new ideas about how Americans should spend their free time to better themselves and their nation. These ideas were propagated in social science publications and proliferated into the wider cultural sphere. Films, fiction, and radio also engaged with new ideas about leisure, more extensively than has previously been recognized. In examining this wide spectrum of opinion, Currell offers the first full-scale account of the fears and hopes surrounding leisure in the 1930s, one that will be an important addition to the cultural history of the period.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Chicago School of Sanitary Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1958-05-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1958-05-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Outlines of Introductory Sociology written by Clarence Marsh Case and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Century of the Leisured Masses written by David George Surdam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000. While most observers focus on gains in per-capita income as a measure of economic well-being, economists have used other measures of well-being: height, weight, and longevity. The increased amount of leisure time per week and across people's lifetimes, however, has been an unsung aspect of the improved standard of living in America. In Century of the Leisured Masses, David George Surdam explores the growing presence of leisure activities in Americans' lives and how this development came out throughout the twentieth century. Most Americans have gone from working fifty-five or more hours per week to working fewer than forty, although many Americans at the top rungs of the economic ladder continue to work long hours. Not only do more Americans have more time to devote to other activities, they are able to enjoy higher-quality leisure. New forms of leisure have given Americans more choices, better quality, and greater convenience. For instance, in addition to producing music themselves, they can now listen to the most talented musicians when and where they want. Television began as black and white on small screens; within fifty years, Americans had a cast of dozens of channels to choose from. They could also purchase favorite shows and movies to watch at their convenience. Even Americans with low incomes enjoyed television and other new forms of leisure. This growth of leisure resulted from a combination of growing productivity, better health, and technology. American workers became more productive and chose to spend their improved productivity and higher wages by consuming more, taking more time off, and enjoying better working conditions. By century's end, relatively few Americans were engaged in arduous, dangerous, and stultifying occupations. The reign of tyranny on the shop floor, in retail shops, and in offices was mitigated; many Americans could even enjoy leisure activities during work hours. Failure to consider the gains in leisure time and leisure consumption understates the gains in American living standards. With Century of the Leisured Masses, Surdam has comprehensively documented and examined the developments in this important marker of well-being throughout the past century.
Download or read book World Yearbook of Education written by George Z. F. Bereday and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book World Yearbook of Education 1965 written by George Z. F. Bereday and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published almost every year since its beginnings four decades ago, The World Yearbook of Education has become one of the most established and respected international publications in education. Each edition focuses on a particular key issue and includes contributions from leading scholars. Now reprinted for 2006, all these classic references have become available to buy again. Editions now available include: 1965: The Education Explosion 1966: Church and State in Education 1967: Educational Planning 1968: Education within Industry 1969: Examinations 1970: Education in Cities 1971/2: Higher Education in a Changing World 1972/3: Universities Facing the Future 1974: Education and Rural Development 1979: Recurrent Education and Lifelong Learning 1980: The Professional Development of Teachers 1981: Education of Minorities 1982/3: Computers and Education 1984: Women and Education 1985: Research, Policy and Practice 1986: The Management of Schools 1987: Vocational Education 1988: Education for the New Technologies 1989: Health Education 1990: Assessment and Evaluation 1991: International Schools and International Education 1992: Urban Education 1993: Special Needs Education 1994: The Gender Gap
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Download or read book WPA Posters in an Aesthetic Social and Political Context written by Cory Pillen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression. Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 and 1943: recreation and leisure, conservation, health and disease, and public housing. As the book shows, the posters promote specific forms of knowledge and literacy as solutions to contemporary social concerns. The varied issues these works engage and the ideals they endorse, however, would have resonated in complex ways with the posters’ diverse viewing public, working both for and against the rhetoric of consensus employed by New Deal agencies in defining and managing the relationship between self and society in modern America. This book will be of interest to scholars in design history, art history, and American studies.
Download or read book American Cinema s Transitional Era written by Charlie Keil and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-07-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 'transitional era' covered the years 1908-1917 & witnessed profound changes in the structure of the motion picture industry in the US, involving film genre, film form, filmmaking practices & the emergence of the studio system. The pattern which emerged dominated the industry for decades to come.
