Work and Leisure

Subject indexactivity rates 91alienation 62aboriginal societies and leisure 17affluent worker studies 110age of leisure – see leisure societyagency-structure debate 1agriculture 18, 30Aristotle 18Audit Commission 44Australian Council of Trades Unions 113Book of Genesis 16Brazilianisation thesis 6, 59–60Bruno, Giordano 22Canadian Institute for Health Information141careers 56, 109casual leisure 10, 200, 201, 205, 207, 210Catholic church and leisure 21central life interest 3, 27, 107childcare 76, 94civil labour 63–65class 4, 37, 38, 57–58, 114, 140, 218, 221,222clocks 23, 25commodification 44communism 51–52, 63–64Compulsory Competitive Tendering 44computers 43consumer culture 54culture 17, 48deregulation 57, 59Economic and Social Research Council 4,171, 172, 224, 226economics of leisure 7, 85ff.embourgeoisement thesis 115–116empiricism 71enjoyment 4, 9, 149, 168, 173–178, 189, 194,195, 226epistemologies 70Experience Sampling Method 8–9, 147–149,175, 178family 40–43, 48–49, 145–149farming as work 18–19feminism 3, 7, 53, 67ff. 112feministepistemologies 70politics 67–68, 82theory 76–81feudal society 26, 28, 30flexible accumulation 27–28, 55–56flow 3, 46, 170, 174–177, 193, 226Fordism 26, 47, 55Foucault 71freedom, realm of 51, 64Future of Work programme 4, 168, 171, 218Garden of Eden 16gender 6–7, 15, 79–81, 128, 177, 217–220globalisation 27, 42, 44, 54, 55, 57, 61, 64, 139,165, 169, 171, 220, 222Happiness 9, 149, 171, 173, 176, 184, 187, 195,216Health 8, 133–140, 170, 184–188, 190–194,196, 197, 222, 226, 227history 5, 15ff. 28holiday entitlements 92home-centredness 45, 110hunter-gatherer societies 17–18immigrant labour 24income distribution 38, 75, 89income-leisure trade-off 7, 85–86inequality 115intrinsic motivation 2job-centredness 27leisureactivities 40, 43–45, 116, 136, 162, 164, 177,186, 187, 191burn out and 191–193Christian view of 19–21class 18‘classical’ view of 1decentring of 8