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.
Author(s): Stephen G. Jones
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 306
City: London
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Tables
Plates
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The demand for leisure
2 Commercialization and the growth of the leisure industry
3 Leisure provision in the voluntary sector
4 State provision: the role of central and municipal authorities
5 Work, leisure and unemployment
6 The Labour Movement and working-class leisure
7 The politics of leisure
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
