A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
by
Tom Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
From the author of Crying, a witty, wide-ranging cultural history of our attitudes toward work—and getting out of it
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, there...