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The Labour of Leisure

Author : Chris Rojek
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1412945534
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Labour of Leisure written by Chris Rojek and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Chris Rojek turns this shibboleth on its head to demonstrate how leisure has become a form of labour. Modern men and women are required to be competent, relevant and credible, not only in the work place but with their mates, children, parents and communities. The requisite empathy for others, socially acceptable values and correct forms of self-presentation demand work. Much of this work is concentrated in non-work activity, compromising traditional connections between leisure and freedom. Ranging widely from an analysis of the inflated aspirations of the leisure society thesis to the culture of deception that permeates leisure choice, Rojek shows how leisure is inextricably linked to emotional labour and intelligence. It is now a school for life. In challenging the orthodox understandings of freedom and free time, The Labour of Leisure sets out an indispensable new approach to the meaning of leisure. Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora Award for outstanding achievement in the field of leisure studies.

Why Work?

Author : Freedom Press
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629635928
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Why Work? written by Freedom Press and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Work? is a provocative collection of essays and illustrations by writers and artists from the nineteenth century through to today, dissecting “work,” its form under capitalism, and the possibilities for an alternative society. It asks: Why do some of us still work until we drop in an age of vast automated production, while others starve for lack of work? Where is the leisure society that was promised? Edited by Freedom Press, this collection includes contributions from luminaries of the past such as William Morris and Bertrand Russell, contemporary theorists such as David Graeber and Juliet Schor, and illustrated examinations of workplace potentials and pitfalls from Clifford Harper and Prole.info.

Labour and Leisure in the Soviet Union

Author : William Moskoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Labour and Leisure in the Soviet Union written by William Moskoff and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social research study on relationships between labour shortage, individual value systems and employees attitudes towards leisure in the USSR - examines household time budget structure, the labour force participation of woman workers, retired workers, pupils and students, the use of temporary employment and overtime work, etc.; comments on paid leave policy and on failures of the service sector to provide consumer goods and appliances; considers leisure activities of the rural population. References.

Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1

Author : Henri Lefebvre
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844671917
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1 written by Henri Lefebvre and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2008-02-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society. Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. A work of enormous range and subtlety, Lefebvre takes as his starting-point and guide the “trivial” details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet one which remains the only source of resistance and change. This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism.

Time for Things

Author : Stephen D. Rosenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674979516
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Time for Things written by Stephen D. Rosenberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 have come to prefer consumption to leisure. Productivity has increased steadily since the mid-twentieth century, yet Americans today work roughly as much as they did then: forty hours per week. We have witnessed, during this same period, relentless growth in consumption. This pattern represents a striking departure from the preceding century, when working hours fell precipitously. It also contradicts standard economic theory, which tells us that increasing consumption yields diminishing marginal utility, and empirical research, which shows that work is a significant source of discontent. So why do we continue to trade our time for more stuff? Time for Things offers a novel explanation for this puzzle. Stephen Rosenberg argues that, during the twentieth century, workers began to construe consumer goods as stores of potential free time to rationalize the exchange of their labor for a wage. For example, when a worker exchanges his labor for an automobile, he acquires a duration of free activity that can be held in reserve, counterbalancing the unfree activity represented by work. This understanding of commodities as repositories of hypothetical utility was made possible, Rosenberg suggests, by the advent of durable consumer goods—cars, washing machines, refrigerators—as well as warranties, brands, chain stores, and product-testing magazines, which assured workers that the goods they purchased would not be subject to rapid obsolescence. This theory clarifies perplexing aspects of behavior under industrial capitalism—the urgency to spend earnings on things, the preference to own rather than rent consumer goods—as well as a variety of historical developments, including the coincident rise of mass consumption and the legitimation of wage labor.

Work and Leisure

Author : John Trevor Haworth
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415250573
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Work and Leisure written by John Trevor Haworth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the profound transformations in the nature and organization of work that are occurring worldwide, with potentially far reaching social and economic consequences.

The Anatomy of Work

Author : Georges Friedmann
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412835886
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Work written by Georges Friedmann and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consequences of narrow work specialization are critical not only for workers and employers but for civilization as a whole. In The Anatomy of Work, George Friedmann elucidates the large and small questions raised by this evolutionary moment in human labor and development. Donald C. King's introduction to this new edition discusses the impact of Friedmann's work on later researchers and assesses its relative strengths and weaknesses in forecasting future trends, particularly in regard to automation. This is pioneering study on how work is organic to human identity.

Transforming the Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure

Author : Yuqin Huang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811564388
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure written by Yuqin Huang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have been structured and transformed, discussing the changing dynamics of power relations both between and within genders, and in local (village and family/household) and remote (the state and market) contexts. It combines perspectives from sociology, gender studies, social history and demography to investigate the changes and continuities in the lives of women and men in Lianhe, a rural village in central China, examining the period from 1926 to 2013 through the lens of labour and leisure. Employing methods from the field of ethnography, the research focuses on the life stories of three generations, including 57 women in Lianhe. The book develops a ‘double comparison’ analytical framework to compare the organisation of labour and leisure in the three respective generations, proceeding, on the one hand, diachronically along the historical time, that is, the pre-collective era, collective era and reform era, and synchronically along the women’s life stages on the other. In so doing, the book links women’s shifting role in changing family/household forms with broader socio-economic, political, demographic and cultural changes. Moreover, it employs a holistic perspective to reflect changing patterns in women’s labour and leisure by disrupting the remunerated/unremunerated, home/labour, within/outside household and labour/leisure dichotomies, and exploring the interrelations between them. Based on this, the book then identifies the determinants of rural women’s labour and leisure and reveals the women’s experiences of their changing identities, particularly concerning their relationships with their parents (-in-law), sisters (-in-law), husbands and children. Particularly highlighting the interdependence and inequality among women, it also reveals their own perception of their identities and relationships, and their understanding of husband–wife fairness and gender equality. Lastly, it demonstrates that the prevalent androcentrism in the remote world does not match the increasing husband–wife fairness in the local world and argues that this mismatch has caused the complex and paradoxical experiences and subjectivities of these women. Given its scope, the book is of interest to scholars, students and researchers in the fields of sociology, anthropology, gender and development, as well as a general audience looking to explore contemporary rural China.

Leisure

Author : Josef Pieper
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586172565
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Leisure written by Josef Pieper and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval Europeans. He points out that religion can be born only in leisure. Leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God. Leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture. He maintains that our bourgeois world of total labor has vanquished leisure, and issues a startling warning: Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our cultureCand ourselves. These astonishing essays contradict all our pragmatic and puritanical conceptions about labor and leisure; Joseph Pieper demolishes the twentieth-century cult of Awork as he predicts its destructive consequences.

Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society?

Author : A. J. Veal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351972022
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? written by A. J. Veal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a ‘leisure society’ was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century would continue indefinitely. The leisure society has clearly not been realised. On the contrary: contemporary industrial societies seem to be characterised by a shortage of time, experienced as ‘time squeeze’ and stress. The leisure society idea can be seen as the modern version of the age-old dream of a ‘life of ease and plenty’. This analytically and empirically rich book traces the idea in history, through biblical, classical Greek, medieval and nineteenth century utopian writings and into twentieth century concerns with dystopia and the impact of rapid technological change. The ‘leisure society’ concept turns out to have been an elusive and short-lived phenomenon. For a variety of reasons, the trend towards shorter working hours ran out of steam in the last quarter of the twentieth century. However, while leisure scholars have deserted the topic, a diverse range of activists, including environmentalists, economists and feminists, continue to make the case for reducing working hours. Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? concludes that the on-going ‘struggle for time’ should be supported, for the sake of human health and well-being and for the sake of the planet. This is a valuable resource for students and academics in the fields of leisure studies, cultural studies, history, economics, sociology and political science.

Soviet Cities: Labour, Life and Leisure

Author : Arseniy Kotov
Publisher : Fuel
ISBN 13 : 9781916218413
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Cities: Labour, Life and Leisure written by Arseniy Kotov and published by Fuel. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet dream of modernist architecture for all, portrayed on the brink of its erasure In recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not been fully acknowledged. As a result many unique modernist buildings have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition. Russian photographer Arseniy Kotov intends to document these buildings and their surroundings before they are lost forever. He likes to take pictures in winter, during the "blue hour," which occurs immediately after sunset or just before sunrise. At this time, the warm yellow colors inside apartment-block windows contrast with the twilight gloom outside. To Kotov, this atmosphere reflects the Soviet period of his imagination. His impression of this time is unashamedly idealistic: he envisages a great civilization, built on a fair society, which hopes to explore nature and conquer space. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan to the grim monolithic high-rise dormitory blocks of inner-city Volgograd, Kotov captures the essence of the post-Soviet world. "The USSR no longer exists and in these photographs we can see what remains--the most outstanding buildings and constructions, where Soviet people lived and how Soviet cities once looked: no decoration, no bright colors and no luxury, only bare concrete and powerful forms." This superbly designed volume is the latest in Fuel's revelatory and inspiring series on Soviet-era architecture.

Amateurs

Author : Robert A. Stebbins
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780803912007
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Amateurs written by Robert A. Stebbins and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Work & Leisure Ils 166

Author : Nels Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136256059
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Work & Leisure Ils 166 written by Nels Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This is Volume XVII of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series. This study on work and leisure looks at present materials that point to the fields of study of non-work obligations, family and home leisure centredness, declining worker interest in the job, passivity and the cultural level.

Labour, Leisure and Luxury

Author : Alex Wylie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Labour, Leisure and Luxury written by Alex Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Work and Leisure

Author : Nels Anderson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415176941
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Work and Leisure written by Nels Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure

Author : Nan Enstad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231111034
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure written by Nan Enstad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, labor leaders in women's unions routinely chastised their members for their ceaseless pursuit of fashion, avid reading of dime novels, and "affected" ways, including aristocratic airs and accents. Indeed, working women in America were eagerly participating in the burgeoning consumer culture available to them. While the leading activists, organizers, and radicals feared that consumerist tendencies made working women seem frivolous and dissuaded them from political action, these women, in fact, went on strike in very large numbers during the period, proving themselves to be politically active, astute, and effective. In Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure, historian Nan Enstad explores the complex relationship between consumer culture and political activism for late nineteenth- and twentieth-century working women. While consumerism did not make women into radicals, it helped shape their culture and their identities as both workers and political actors. Examining material ranging from early dime novels about ordinary women who inherit wealth or marry millionaires, to inexpensive, ready-to-wear clothing that allowed them to both deny and resist mistreatment in the workplace, Enstad analyzes how working women wove popular narratives and fashions into their developing sense of themselves as "ladies." She then provides a detailed examination of how this notion of "ladyhood" affected the great New York shirtwaist strike of 1909-1910. From the women's grievances, to the walkout of over 20,000 workers, to their style of picketing, Enstad shows how consumer culture was a central theme in this key event of labor strife. Finally, Enstad turns to the motion picture genre of female adventure serials, popular after 1912, which imbued "ladyhood" with heroines' strength, independence, and daring.

Workers at Play

Author : Stephen G. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429830904
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Workers at Play written by Stephen G. Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. This book explores developments in the cinema, sport, holidays, gambling, drinking and many more recreational activities, and situates working-class leisure within the determining economic and social context. In particular, the inventiveness of working people ‘at play’ is highlighted. Drawing on an extensive range of source material, the book has a wide general appeal, and will be useful to those professionally concerned with leisure, as well as teachers and students of social history, and all those interested in the patterns of working-class life in the past.