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Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America
ISBN: 9780231113939 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Whether it's needlepoint or woodworking, collecting stamps or dolls, everyone has a hobby, or is told they need one. But why do we fill our leisure time with the activities we do? And what do our hobbies say about our culture? Steven Gelber here traces the history and significance of hobbies from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1950s. Although hobbies are often touted as a break from work, Gelber demonstrates that they reflect and reproduce the values and activities of the workplace by bringing utilitarian rationality into the home, imitating the economic stratification of the...
Whether it's needlepoint or woodworking, collecting stamps or dolls, everyone has a hobby, or is told they need one. But why do we fill our leisure ti...
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223,60 zł |
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Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace
ISBN: 9780801889974 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The trading, selling, and buying of personal transport has changed little over the past one hundred years. Whether horse trading in the early twentieth century or car buying today, haggling over prices has been the common practice of buyers and sellers alike. Horse Trading in the Age of Cars offers a fascinating study of the process of buying an automobile in a historical and gendered context. Steven M. Gelber convincingly demonstrates that the combative and frequently dishonest culture of the showroom floor is a historical artifact whose origins lie in the history of horse... The trading, selling, and buying of personal transport has changed little over the past one hundred years. Whether horse trading in the early twent... |
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249,01 zł |