Work and Leisure

Subject index 237definition of 1experiential definition of 2Greek view of 19health and 9, 136–140, 170, 184–188,191–196modularisation of 61price of 86residual definition of 1–2shock 34as social problem 3society 26–27, 53, 59, 85, 123, 213stress and 10, 136–139, 162, 164, 185, 186,191–196, 217revolution 34, 37, 214Life satisfaction 171, 173, 192, 218lifestyle 43, 46, 55, 69, 76, 119, 123, 134,138–140, 169, 170, 184–192, 196, 197,205–207, 210locus of control 9, 178, 179mastery 137–139material rewards 24McDonaldisation 46–48mental flexibility and leisure 2, 191National Lottery 35, 45Newly Industrialised Countries 27neo-Marxism 3New labour 39occupational communities 7, 117–118overwork thesis 6, 53–54, 124, 125, 130, 131,133–136, 186, 215paradigmatic rivalry 6, 179participation 43, 54, 115–116, 224, 225post-Fordism 37posmodern feminists 71postmodernism 3, 55, 62, 179post-industrialism 59, 60, 216post-work 6, 57, 62–63Positive Psychology 4–5, 171pre-industrial leisure 17–21, 28–29privatisation 57principal environmental influences 177Protestant ethic 2, 20–21, 25, 51, 54, 63proto-industrialisation 21public policy 1, 227, 228Puritan ethic – see Protestant ethicquality of life 1, 8, 10, 200, 205–207, 210, 211,225, 226rational recreation 26Renaissance 21–22residuum 58, 61retired people 1, 61rights to leisure 74scientific management – see TaylorismSt Monday 21self-esteem and leisure 2serious leisure 3, 10, 46, 61, 170, 187, 200–206,210, 227Sheffield study 72–73shiftwork 92social capital 63, 227socially guaranteed income 63soci-economic groups 114–117standpoint epistemology 71stress 4, 8, 9, 127, 132–140, 145, 146, 150–153,157, 159, 161, 162, 164, 165, 186, 191,193–196, 217, 222, 226, 228task-orientation 23Taylorism 26, 47television-watching 43, 162, 186, 187, 190,192, 201third world 64timecommitted 8contracted 8discretionary 8famine 54, 60, 62obligated 86time-bind 3time-crunched 8, 126, 129–131, 133, 138, 139,222time-pressure 8, 123, 126–140time-sense 22time-squeeze 3, 136trans-national corporations 56trust 224unemployment 1, 36, 43, 58, 60, 62volunteering 201–204, 207–210well-being 2, 3, 4, 8–10, 123, 130, 131, 149,164, 168–173, 177–180, 191, 193, 222,225, 226womenand earnings 75and the home 157–162and leisure 72ff. 162, 167and leisure time 73work 29–30, 36, 68, 145, 153, 157and life-course 40–42oppression of 69, 73work 35–39casualisation of 60definition of 1, 2domestic 73, 76, 94ethic – see Protestant ethicflexibilisation 36, 56, 61, 92function of 2, 3, 17, 20–22, 168, 169,217–218, 223Greek view of 18–19Hebrew view of 16history of 5, 15ff.human progress and 22intensification 37, 39socially and economically necessary 51unpaid 74, 94