Name: Doing Nothing
ISBN: 9780865476509

Tom Lutz

A cultural history of the American attitude toward work cites the pivotal contributions of the Industrial Revolution in the formation of the modern work ethic, evaluating the current divergence between "worker" and "slacker" stereotypes.

A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America

Doing Nothing

Jeannette Ordas

Boy, this took me a while to get through. It wasn't that I hated this book or that I was lazy (well, maybe) or that I found it boring (because i didn't), it just wasn't a book I could gobble up in one sitting. It felt more like a history lesson which was informative but not something I could jump hoops for. What I couldn't really get behind was the writer's own personal back story...there wasn't much there. I wanted more personal stuff about his own life and the life of his slack ass son (who was the one who inspired the book). Oh well, maybe he was just too lazy.

Doing Nothing A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America

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