1st Edition

Working at Leisure

By Barrie Sherman Copyright 1986
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

In Working at Leisure (originally published in 1986), Barrie Sherman envisages a world where homeworking will be the norm, the cities will be deserted, the suburbs the new centres of work and leisure. And what of unemployment? We must recognise that never again can we expect to be in full-time employment for the whole of our working lives. But, depending on the action we take now, this could... Read more

1. The working go-round  2. Not enough to go round  3. The new technologies  4. Conventional theories in unconventional times  5. The political dimension  6. Who does and who will do what  7. The changing faces of work  8. The need for change  9. Learning to live  10. Meeting people’s needs  11. ‘For the unemployed, leisure is a waste of time’  12. The leisure revolution  13. Thinking the unthinkable  14. Political action – and inaction  15. Facing the future: the new industrial revolution  16. The hardest revolution of all

Biography

Barrie Sherman was a journalist, broadcaster and writer. He served as the Director of Research at the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. He was the co-author, with Clive Jenkins, of The Collapse of Work and The Leisure Shock.