November 15, 2002

'A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life'

By NINA C. AYOUB

"Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be," says Todd D. Rakoff, since blue laws went away. Those regulations, notes the Harvard University law professor, once barred most commerce and labor on Sunday across the United States. While anachronistic, he agrees, the laws reinforced the value of a collective and recurrent repose. Such breaks are a disappearing notion. Clocking out was once easier for Americans. But for many today, the boundaries between time on and time off, weekday and

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