Work and leisure / by Nels Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Nels, 1889-1986.

Series:

International Library of Sociology

International Library of Sociology. The Sociology of Work and Organization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--Social aspects.

Work.

Leisure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1998

Contents:

Front Cover; Preface; Work and Leisure; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Western Society Faces Leisure; Leisure's Ambiguous Position; Our Industrial Culture; Globality of Urbanism; Security and Accumulation; Mobility and Integration; Temporal Implications; Mass Organizations; Individualism and Authority; Social Class in Western Society; Summary; 2. The Work-Leisure Dichotomy; By the Sweat of the Brovv; The Motives for Work; Work Competition and Leisure; Looking Closer at Leisure; The Functions of Leisure; Leisure and Non-work Obligations; Where Recreation Comes in; Play and Amusement

Idleness and UnemploymentSummary; 3. Some Dimensions of Time; The Time-investment Cult; The New Time Awarenes; The Coming of Clocks; Time, Work and Tempo; Money Values and Time; Time, Money and Leisur; Work and Leisure in Lockstep; Habitual Time-usePattern; Tradition and Time-use Pattern; Of Man'sTotal Time; Summary; 4. The Provoking Gift of Leisure; Leisure, the Uninvited; Leisure Must be Earned; The Do-something Complex; Protest Against Passivity; Culture and Mediocrity; 'Spectatoritis' or Participation; On Viewing with Alarm; Ambiguities of Leisure; New Thinking about Leisure; Summary

5. Some Pertinent Aspects of LeisureLeisure as Consumer Spending; Involvementsin Leisure Spending; Time Given to Leisure; Leisure for Wives and Mother; Holidays and Vacations; The Conventional Vacation; Leisure Planning and Preferences; Commercial Amusement; Leisure and the Sexes; Alcohol and Leisure; Reading, Highand Low; Summary; 6. Youth and the Life Cycle; When Play is Tolerated; Play and Social Discipline; The Educational Function; Educationfor Work and Leisure; The Distant Goal; Work Comes to the Rescue; Work-as the Young Find it; Are New Work Values Needed; Where the Fun Comes in

Adaptation and ConformitySummary; 7. Active Years of the Life Cycle; Family in the Life Cycle; Social Class and Occupation; Pursuits of Status and Happiness; Social Mobility and Display; Using Leisure at Home; Fashion and Zestful Living; Domestic Accumulations; The Seeming Unimportance of Things; Non-typical Families and Household; When Wives also Work; Spending and Saving; Summary; 8. With Time on Their Hands; A Man and His Worth; What Retirement Means; Old-age in Germany; Retirement and Loneliness; From Loneliness to Loneliness; With Wheels to Ride on; The Old and their Housing

Old Age in GermanyAge and Life Enjoyment; Summary; 9. How Men Manage Their Behaviour; Conformity and Sociality; The Ordering Influence of Work; Culture and the Work Place; The Disciplines of Leisure; Conformity and the Social Game; Keeping the Hands Busy; Unrest, Leisure and Idlenes; Small-group Vitality; Formal Associations and Groups; Associations for the Common Good; Public Service in Work and Leisure; Whatgoes on the Record; Summary; 10. Time-Use Trends and Prospects; What the Future may Hold; Speaking of Automation; On Knowing What to Fear; Uses of Atomic Energy

Of Man's Work and Security

Notes:

Originally published: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 15, 2016).

ISBN:

1-136-25605-9

1-306-07608-0

1-136-25597-4

1-315-00748-7

9781315007489

OCLC:

610199343