Working At Play: A History of Vacations in the United States

This book by Cindy Aron was published in 1999.  Unfortunately it stops in 1940. So it does not cover the period when the gap in vacation time between the US and other industrialized countries widens. In any case it does not devote much space to the class struggles and strikes that brought vacation time to blue collar workers.

August 6, 1999
        Host Sarah Gardner interviews Cindy Aron, the author of Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States, about why Americans feel the need to take work with them when they go on vacation.         It's all about guilt.
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This interview does not cover paid vacation. It does not touch the social struggles that brought vacation time to most workers.