labor and leisure

Scope Note

Ideas of the value and dignity of labor; notions of pleasant and unpleasant tasks; distribution of labor and leisure time; incentives to labor (e.g., pride in craftsmanship, prestige, material rewards, compulsion); time and motion studies; intensity of effort; palliation of labor (e.g., with drugs, rhythm, music); work tempo (e.g., steady, intermittent); social work groups (e.g., work "bees"); standards of productivity and production norms; laziness and malingering; rest periods; loafing and loitering; etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 460 labor

Related Terms

• 221 annual cycle
• 464 labor supply and employment
• 517 leisure time activities
• 527 rest days and holidays
• 567 slavery
• 689 social offenses