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Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans ha
The Labour of Leisure
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Pages: 217
Authors: Chris Rojek
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: SAGE Publications

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Leisure has always been associated with freedom, choice and flexibility. The week-end and vacations were celebrated as 'time off'. In his compelling new book, C
Getting Work Right: Labor and Leisure in a Fragmented World
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-03 - Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing

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If we don’t get Sunday right, we won’t get Monday—or any day of the workweek—right. The divided life is a temptation so built into our society, we may n
Sport and Political Ideology
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: John Hoberman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-30 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Across the modern political spectrum, left-wing and right-wing political theorists have invested sport with ideological significance. That significance, however
The Leisure Ethic
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: William A. Gleason
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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This literary and cultural history of the rise of modern leisure shows how American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston both responded to and