Time for things labor, leisure, and the rise of mass consumption
"Time for Things seeks an answer to the question of why, in mature industrial capitalist societies, increasing productivity has tended to get used to increase output and consumption as opposed to reducing the burden of work. Put simply, why do we live in a world so full of goods, many of which...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- The puzzle
- Empirical pattern in the United States
- The theory of consumption as wage labor
- Economic fairness and the wage labor background
- Standardization of consumption, work, and wages
- Standardizing utility: brands, commercial, and legal warranties
- Product testing and product regularization
- Moral panic about utility: planned obsolescence
- Conclusion: Capitalism, commensuration, and the normativity of economic action.