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Leisure and work / Stanley Parker.

By: Parker, Stanley, 1927-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Leisure and recreation studies ; 2.Publisher: London : Allen & Unwin, 1983Description: xv, 157 p. ; 22 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0043011624 m (hbk; 0043011632 v (pbk).Subject(s): Leisure -- Great BritainDDC classification: 306.2
Contents:
Changing definitions and concepts -- Work and leisure in history and other societies -- What does work mean today? -- The social and individual functions of leisure -- Some studies of particular groups -- The unwaged: housewives, the unemployed and the retired -- The work-leisure relationship -- Towards a theory of work and leisure -- The microelectronics revolution? -- The potentialities of work and leisure -- Social policies in the 1980s and 1990s.

Bibliography: (pages 138-148) and index.

Changing definitions and concepts -- Work and leisure in history and other societies -- What does work mean today? -- The social and individual functions of leisure -- Some studies of particular groups -- The unwaged: housewives, the unemployed and the retired -- The work-leisure relationship -- Towards a theory of work and leisure -- The microelectronics revolution? -- The potentialities of work and leisure -- Social policies in the 1980s and 1990s.