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Time, Work and Leisure - Life Changes in England Since 1700 (Paperback)
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Time, Work and Leisure - Life Changes in England Since 1700 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Popular Culture
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Loot Price R456
Discovery Miles 4 560
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This book traces the history of the relationship between work and
leisure, from the 'leisure preference' of male workers in the
eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the
later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their
progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines how trade union
action was critical in achieving the decline; how class structured
the experience of leisure; how male identity was shaped by both
work and leisure; how, in a society that placed high value on work,
a 'leisured class' was nevertheless at the apex of political and
social power - until it became thought of as 'the idle rich'.
Coinciding with the decline in working hours, two further tranches
of time were marked out as properly without work: childhood and
retirement. Accessible, wide-ranging and occasionally polemical,
this book provides the first history of how we have imagined and
used time. -- .
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