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"Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community "reveals a rural, working-class mining community in the industrial era, at play. This detailed historical study provides a fascinating perspective on a way of life more usually characterized by its economic hardship and social rigidity than by its pastimes and pleasures.
The book addresses working class sports and leisure in its totality, using a range of approaches to explore the life and history of this clearly defined period and geographical location.

There has been increasing interest and debate in recent years on the instituted nature of economic processes in general and the related ideas of the market, in particular the competitive process. This debate lies at the interface between two largely independent disciplines, economics and sociology, and reflects an attempt to bring the two fields of discourse more closely together. This book, newly available in paperback, explores this interface in a number of ways, looking at the competitive process and market relations from a number of different perspectives. It includes a wide range of...

Sport and recreation were essential to bring meaning and pleasure to mining families, and were fundamental to the complex social relationships within and between communities. This book explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change.