Doing nothing : a history of loafers, loungers, slackers and bums in America / Tom Lutz.
Doing nothing : a history of loafers, loungers, slackers and bums in America / Tom Lutz.
Doing nothing : a history of loafers, loungers, slackers and bums in America / Tom Lutz.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2006.
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N174/49
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English
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ix, 363 p. ; 24 cm.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2006.
Edition
1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2006.
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"Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, a chorus of slackers has held the pretensions of hardworking respectability up to scorn. Reviled by many, heroic to others, these layabouts stretch and yawn their way through life and...
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Doing nothing : a history of loafers, loungers, slackers and bums in America / Tom Lutz.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-354) and index.
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c2006.
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N174/49
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74VKvm70lEVA
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9780865476509 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0865476500 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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174
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991021460139702626
