Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society?

ISBN-13: 9780367519933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str.

A. J. Veal

Opis

This critical and empirically-rich book documents and analyses the rise and fall of the leisure society idea, examines its role in the study of leisure, and assesses its relevance to the challenges facing global society in the 21st Century.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction,  1. Introduction: the elusive leisure society,  2. About work, leisure, non-work time and the leisure society,  Part II: Pre-history and History,  3. The leisure society: pre-history, history, utopia,  4. Industrialisation, automation and the problem of work, rest and leisure: 1918-1939,  5. Work-leisure relationships and mass leisure: 1945-1959,  6. Futurism, post-industrialism and the leisure society,  7. The leisure society idea: 1960-1979,  8. Unemployment, the leisure ethic and the end of work: 1980-1999,  Part III: Analysis,  9. Economics, work and leisure and the leisure society,  10. The leisure society’s critics,  Part IV: The 21st Century,  11. Work-reduced futures for the 21st century,  12. The struggle for time. What next?

O autorze

A. J. Veal is Adjunct Professor in the Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is past President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies (ANZALS) and former Chair of the Leisure Studies Association (UK).