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Perspectives on leisure–work relationship 119integration of work and leisure experiences in people’s lives’. Similar calls tofocus on the multidimensional concept of lifestyle, rather than the bivariateexamination of work and leisure alone, have been made by others (e.g.Chaney 1987; Durantye 1988; Moorhouse 1989: 31; Veal 1989, 1993) andmore recently it has been suggested that leisure researchers should focus onthe concept of culture to capture the potentially reflexive relationship betweenleisure and other domains, such as work, family, education and community(e.g. Wynne 1998; Rojek 2000).Note1 Growing up in rural south-west England in the 1950s I can attest to the ‘ElDorado’ status of the car factories of London and the Midlands at the time. It wasrumoured that unskilled workers on the production line earned as much as £20 aweek, more than double the wage of other manual workers at the time. But it wasstill a time of post-war housing shortages, so the prospect of whole families actuallybeing able to move to ‘the smoke’, a daunting proposition at the best of times,was remote.ReferencesBourdieu, P. (1984) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. London:Routledge.Chaney, D. (1987) Review of Rojek’s Capitalism and Leisure Theory and Clarke andCritcher’s The Devil Makes Work. Sociological Review 35(1): 200–2.Clarke, J. and Critcher, C. (1985) The Devil Makes Work: Leisure in Capitalist Britain.London: Macmillan.Cushman, G., Veal, A. J. and Zuzanek, J. (eds) (1996) World Leisure Participation:Free Time in the Global Village. Wallingford, UK: CAB International.Dubin, R. (1956) Industrial workers’ worlds: a study of the ‘central life interests’ ofindustrial workers. Social Problems 3(3): 131–42.Durantye, M. (1988) Towards multidisciplinary research on leisure and lifestyles: anholistic approach. Paper presented to the World Leisure and Recreation AssociationCongress, Free Time, Leisure and Society, Lake Louise, Canada, May.Goldthorpe, J. H., Lockwood, D., Bechefor, F. and Taylor, P. (1968) The AffluentWorker: Industrial Attidtudes and Behaviour. London: Cambridge University Press.Gratton, C. (1996) Great Britain. In G. Cushman, A. J. Veal and J. Zuzanek (eds)World Leisure Participation: Free Time in the Global Village. Wallingford, Oxon:CABI Publishing.Gregory, S. (1982) Women among others: another view. Leisure Studies 1(1): 47–52.Jarvie, G. and Maguire, J. (1994) Sport and Leisure in Social Thought. London:Routledge.Kelly, J. R. (1983) Leisure Identities and Interactions. London: Allen and Unwin.Kreitzman, L. (1999) The 24 Hour Society. London: Profile.McKay, J. (1990) Sport, leisure and social inequality in Australia. In D. Rowe andG. Lawrence (eds) Sport and Leisure: Trends in Contemporary Popular Culture.Sydney: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.