Notes on the Contributors; General Introduction; Part One: Leisure and Social Change; Introduction; 1. Predictions, Portents, and Paradigms (1976) Ian Miles 2. Technological Change and the Future (1980) Tom Stonier 3. De-skilling and Forced Leisure: Steps Beyond Class Analysis (1984) Chris Rojek 4. The Politics of Leisure: Social Control and Social Development (1980) Chas Critcher 5. The Society of Leisure: Myth and Reality (1975) Kenneth Roberts 6. Anti-leisure and Public Recreation Policy: A View from the USA (1975) Geoffrey Godbey; Part Two: Leisure and Social Structure; Introduction; 7. Class Stratification and Cultural Consumption: Some Motifs in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu (1977) Graham Murdock 8. The Swedish Experience: Life and Leisure in an Affluent Mixed Economy (1980) Harold Swedner 9. Sociology and Leisure: A Structural Approach and Some Policy Implications (1975) N. C. A. Parry and D. Johnson 10. Boys Muscle in Where Angels Fear to Tread: The Relationship between Physical Education and Young Women‘s Subcultures (1984) Sheila Scraton 11. One-parent Families and Leisure (1979) Jane Streather; Part Three: Leisure and Work: Problems and Possibilities; Introduction; 12. "The trouble with being unemployed is that you never get a day off" (1982) Paul Corrigan 13. Unemployment, Youth, and Leisure in the 1980s (1985) Kenneth Roberts 14. Unemployment, Leisure, and Education (1981) David H. Hargreaves 15. Education for Leisure: A Case Study from the Netherlands (1981) George de Vink 16. Early Retirement: A New Leisure Opportunity? (1982) Ann McGoldrick 17. Leisure and the Future: Considering the Options (1984) A. J. Veal; Index
Biography
Fred Coalter
