Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America
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Portions of Chapter 1 were originally published in ESQ 53 (2007): 184–215.
Copyright 2007 by the Board of Regents of Washington State University.
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Knighton, Andrew Lyndon.
Idle threats : men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America
/ Andrew Lyndon Knighton.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8147-4890-9 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8147-8939-1 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8147-4891-6 (ebook)
ISBN 978-0-8147-4944-9 (ebook)
1. Labor productivity—United States—History—19th century.
2. Leisure—United States—History—19th century. I. Title.
HC110.L3K65 2012
331.11’8097309034—dc23
2011051504
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