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Time, Work and Leisure

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Time, Work and Leisure

By Hugh Cunningham

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About the book

This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the 'leisure preference' of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines how trade union action was critical in achieving the decline; how class structured the experience of leisure; how male identity was shaped by both work and leisure; how, in a society that placed hig...Show more

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ISBN

9781784993559

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published year

2016

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Time, Work and Leisure

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Paperback

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