Research Paper on:
American's Loss of Leisure Time

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you mean that time when Im doing laundry and have some time to watch television between folding loads and while ironing others? Marketers  and futurists in the 1950s told our parents through newsreels of all the wonderful inventions that were coming our way and how much drudge labor they would save. Dishwashers  would relieve us of the need to wash, dry and put away the dishes after dinner each night, indeed after each of the three meals that generally were made at  home each day. Automatic washing machines would accept dirty laundry and produce washed, rinsed and spun-dry clothes and linens. It would no longer matter what the weather was  like outside, because those clean clothes could go into the automatic dryer... The "dreamers" of the 1950s had a long list of conveniences  that they said would come to be commonplace in every household. Freezers would ease the annual chore of putting up food for the winter; electronic ovens would cook food  in a fraction of the time that conventional cooking required. We would have so much extra time, according to the futurists of the 50s. Reality Arises  Those futurists dreams did indeed come to pass. In times past, the nuclear family consisted of a father who worked for money, a mother who  worked to keep the household running and children who were expected to do specific chores each day as a matter of course. If Mom was a well-organized type, she  often would add school, charity or general community work to her schedule on a volunteer basis. Everyone contributed both to the family and to the larger community, and they