A J Veal

Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781138289642
• ISBN-10: 1138289647
• Artikelnr.: 53958385

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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?