Work Leisure And The Environment

Author : Tim J. C. Robinson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work, Leisure and the Environment written by Tim J. C. Robinson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Work, Leisure and the Environment' is about a fundamental flaw in market economies that causes us to unknowingly reduce our well-being by working and consuming too much. We do this because we are unable to correctly assess the benefits we derive from our individual work effort.

Author : Tim J. C. Robinson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work, Leisure and the Environment written by Tim J. C. Robinson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Work, Leisure and the Environment' is about a fundamental flaw in market economies that causes us to unknowingly reduce our well-being by working and consuming too much. We do this because we are unable to correctly assess the benefits we derive from our individual work effort.

Author : John Trevor Haworth
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415250580
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work and Leisure written by John Trevor Haworth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts in a wide range of disciplines concerned with work, leisure and well-being to discuss key, topical issues.

Author : John T Haworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134752199
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work, Leisure and Well-Being written by John T Haworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is now well established that unemployment is detrimental to health and well being, most of us assume that a well structured, rewarding leisure activity would be preferable to paid work. John Haworth challenges these assumptions and shows that the very constriction of work, like having to perform a task we wouldn't otherwise choose, are often the most rewarding in the end. Work, Leisure and Well Being reviews the current literature and complements it with the findings of the most recent research to provide a serious and fascinating study of the most important areas of adult life. It raises as many questions as it answers; for instance, if paid work is better than a leisure activity, what's the use of looking forward to retirement? Work, Leisure and Well Being will be of interest not only to psychologists, but also to a wide range of professionals involved in social policy and the leisure industry.

Author : A. J. Veal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351972022
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? written by A. J. Veal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a ‘leisure society’ was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century would continue indefinitely. The leisure society has clearly not been realised. On the contrary: contemporary industrial societies seem to be characterised by a shortage of time, experienced as ‘time squeeze’ and stress. The leisure society idea can be seen as the modern version of the age-old dream of a ‘life of ease and plenty’. This analytically and empirically rich book traces the idea in history, through biblical, classical Greek, medieval and nineteenth century utopian writings and into twentieth century concerns with dystopia and the impact of rapid technological change. The ‘leisure society’ concept turns out to have been an elusive and short-lived phenomenon. For a variety of reasons, the trend towards shorter working hours ran out of steam in the last quarter of the twentieth century. However, while leisure scholars have deserted the topic, a diverse range of activists, including environmentalists, economists and feminists, continue to make the case for reducing working hours. Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? concludes that the on-going ‘struggle for time’ should be supported, for the sake of human health and well-being and for the sake of the planet. This is a valuable resource for students and academics in the fields of leisure studies, cultural studies, history, economics, sociology and political science.

Author : Henri Lefebvre
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844671917
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1 written by Henri Lefebvre and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2008-02-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society. Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. A work of enormous range and subtlety, Lefebvre takes as his starting-point and guide the “trivial” details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet one which remains the only source of resistance and change. This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism.

Author : L. Davidson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230299377
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serious Leisure and Nature written by L. Davidson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leisure activities undertaken in nature are immensely popular. This book examines the new serious leisure concept of nature challenge activity (NCA), exploring how NCA unfolds in an aesthetically appealing natural environment with implications for consumption and environmental sustainability.

Author : Ernie John Zelinski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780969419419
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Not Working written by Ernie John Zelinski and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice on achieving success and satisfaction in life away from the work place.

Author : Louise Mansfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000947394
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisure and the Politics of the Environment written by Louise Mansfield and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within leisure studies there is a growing awareness and intensifying conscience about the potential environmental threat posed by the continued and unmanaged economic growth and development of sport, tourism and leisure. This collection brings together explicit discussions from a range of fields including environmental geography, consumer research, sociology and politics of the increasing relevance and complexities of environmental politics in leisure studies. It provides a snapshot into the wide-ranging debates on the politics of the environment and leisure/sport/tourism and serves as a starting point for further dialogue between leisure studies scholars and those in other disciplines where many of environmental debates have been advanced. The volume will be of great value to scholars and practitioners in the areas of leisure studies, conservation and local politics. This book was published as a special issue of Leisure Studies.

Author : Jiri Zuzanek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317213157
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time, Leisure and Well-Being written by Jiri Zuzanek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of work and leisure as elements of our social fabric have puzzled philosophers and social scientists for generations. This ambitious new study considers historical views of work and leisure alongside contemporary survey evidence about time-use and well-being. Combining sophisticated theoretical analysis with empirical research, the book presents a contrarian argument that defines leisure as a serious and stimulating challenge rather than an unqualified benefit or good. This is vital reading for anyone with an interest in the concept of time in the social sciences, work-life balance, organisational studies, or the history, philosophy, or sociology of work and leisure.