Working at play : a history of vacations in the United States / Cindy S. Aron.

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.

xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes index and bibliography: p. 263-314.

Part One. Inventing vacations -- Ch. 1. Recuperation and recreation: the pursuit of health and genteel pleasures -- Ch. 2. "Summer hotels are everywhere...": a flood of vacationers -- Ch. 3. "through the streets in bathing costumes": resort vacations, 1850-1900 -- Ch. 4. "No late hours, no headache in the morning...": self-improvement vacations -- Ch. 5. "a jaunt...agreeable and instructive": the vacationer as tourist -- Ch. 6. "Unfashionable, but for once happy!": camping vacations

Part Two. Into the twentieth century -- Ch. 7. "Vacations do not appeal to them...": extending vacations to the working class -- Ch. 8. Crossing class and racial boundaries: vacationing in the early twentieth century -- Ch. 9. "It's worthwhile to get something from your holiday": vacationing during the depression.