Introduction: higher progress
the forgotten American dream
The kingdom of God in America : progress as the advance of freedom
Labor and the ten-hour system
Walt Whitman: higher progress at mid-century
The eight-hour day : labor from the civil war to the 1920s
Infrastructures of freedom
Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's new dream
Challenges to full-time, full employment
Labor turns from shorter hours to full-time, full employment
Higher progress fades : holdouts persist
The eclipse of higher progress and the emergence of overwork.