Barrie Sherman

Working at Leisure

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Produktbeschreibung

In Working at Leisure (originally published in 1986), Barrie Sherman envisages a world where homeworking will be the norm, the cities will be deserted, the suburbs the new centres of work and leisure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781041088967
• ISBN-10: 1041088965
• Artikelnr.: 73579056

Autorenporträt

Barrie Sherman was a journalist, broadcaster and writer. He served as the Director of Research at the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. He was the co-author, with Clive Jenkins, of The Collapse of Work and The Leisure Shock.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The working go-round 2. Not enough to go round 3. The new technologies
4. Conventional theories in unconventional times 5. The political dimension
6. Who does and who will do what 7. The changing faces of work 8. The need
for change 9. Learning to live 10. Meeting people's needs 11. 'For the
unemployed, leisure is a waste of time' 12. The leisure revolution 13.
Thinking the unthinkable 14. Political action - and inaction 15. Facing the
future: the new industrial revolution 16. The hardest revolution of all