The eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of overwork. The kingdom of God in America : progress as the advance of freedom -- Labor and the ten-hour system -- Walt Whitman: higher progress at mid-century -- The eight-hour day : labor from the civil war to the 1920s -- Infrastructures of freedom -- Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's new dream -- Challenges to full-time, full employment -- Labor turns from shorter hours to full-time, full employment -- Higher progress fades : holdouts persist -- The eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of overwork.
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