First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different
classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it.
It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the
history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions
that there was a vacuum in popular leisure in the early Industrial
Revolution; that with industrialisation there was sharp
discontinuity with the past; that cultural forms diffuse themselves
only down the social scale, and that leisure helped ease class
distinctions. An alternative interpretation is suggested in which
popular culture can be seen as an active agent as well as a victim.
This title will be of interest to students of history.
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