For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure Into Consumption

ISBN-13: 9780877227403 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 288 str.

Richard Butsch

Opis

During the nineteenth century, leisure industries emerged to provide recreation and entertainment to Americans of all classes. Entertainment has become a multi-billion dollar industry. The essays collected here explore the transformation this wrought in leisure and analyze its effects on class relations in American society.