Work and Leisure

IllustrationsFIGURES1.1 Estimates of length of working year: male manual workersin Britain, 1550–1950 295.1 Actual weekly hours worked by full-time employees, UK,1976–2000 885.2 Proportion of employees who usually work more than 48hours a week, EU, 1990 1026.1 Participation in sports, games and physical activities bysocio-economic group, Great Britain, 1987–96 1168.1 Average stress levels across the week 1508.2 Time spent working at home 1548.3 Feelings after work 1558.4 Work and family 1568.5 Increases and decreases in stress 1598.6 Engagement in leisure activities 1639.1 A model of well-being 17810.1 A path-analytic model of motivational determinants ofleisure behaviour 188TABLES5.1 Weekly paid work hours by income, UK, 1994–5 895.2 Labour force economic activity rates, UK, 1984–99 915.3 Holiday entitlement, UK, 1995 925.4 Proportion of men and women who wish to reduce theirworking hours, UK, 1995 945.5 Hours worked, UK, USA, Japan, 1870–1970 995.6 Days off work, international comparisons, 1989 995.7 Average total usual weekly hours worked by full-timeemployees, EU, 1999 1006.1 Wilensky and Parker: relationships between work andleisure 111