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Author: John Trevor Haworth
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780415250573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the profound transformations in the nature and organization of work that are occurring worldwide, with potentially far reaching social and economic consequences.
Author: John T Haworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-04-19
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1134752199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough 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: Michael J. Naughton
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 194901357X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf we don’t get Sunday right, we won’t get Monday—or any day of the workweek—right. The divided life is a temptation so built into our society, we may not even recognize it. Yet most of us fall prey to it. We either undervalue work, resenting it as simply a job, or we overvalue it as an identity-defining career. Michael Naughton, drawing on his background in both business and theology, proposes that the key to finding balance is another important human activity: leisure. In light of leisure—not mere amusement, but time for family, silence, prayer, and above all, worship—work becomes a space where men and women can find deep fulfilment. Naughton provides real-world examples of how businesses can promote authentic human flourishment and innovation through practices and policies that support leisure. In Getting Work Right Michael Naughton will change how you work—and rest.
Author: Mitchell R. Haney
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010-03-16
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0739141422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a platitude that most people, as they say, 'work to live' rather than 'live to work.' And in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, work weeks have expanded and the divide between work time and personal time has significantly blurred due to innovations in such things as electronic communications. Concerns over the value of work in our lives, as well as with the balance or use of time between work and leisure, confront most people in contemporary society. Discussions over the values of time, leisure, and work are directly related to the time-honored question of what makes a life good. And this question is of particular interest to philosophers, especially ethicists. In this volume, leading scholars address a range of value considerations related to peoples' thoughts and practices around time utilization, leisure, and work with masterful insight. In addressing various practical issues, these scholars demonstrate the timeless relevance and practical import of Philosophy to human lived experience.
Author: Robert A. Stebbins
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1412854253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween Work and Leisure aims to debunk the prevailing myth that work and leisure are separate and mutually antagonistic spheres of life. Stebbins shows that a close relationship between leisure and work is positive, offering people the possibility of finding joy in work just as they do in leisure. Occupational devotion, as Stebbins defines it, is a strong and positive attachment to a form of self-enhancing work, where the sense of achievement is high and the core activity, or set of tasks, is endowed with such intense appeal that the line between work and leisure is virtually erased. This volume examines conditions that attract people to their work in this profound way, and the many exceptional values and intrinsic rewards they realize there. Stebbins frames occupational devotion in four broad social contexts—history, religion, work, and leisure—and then considers the further subdivisions of gender, social class, and social character. The heart of the book uses research findings on leisure to develop a powerful critique of those who describe deeply felt commitment to work as "workaholic" behavior. He also examines what happens when money becomes a dominant factor in work and the social implications of the compatibility of work and serious leisure using exploratory research to identify their shared motivational factors.
Author: Henri Lefebvre
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844671946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe three volumes of the radical sociologist's magnum opus—in a boxed set: a monumental exploration of contemporary society, by one of the twentieth century's great intellectuals. The Critique of Everyday Lifeis perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. The trilogy which provided the philosophy behind the 1968 student revolution in France, it is considered to be the founding text of what we now know as cultural studies. Whether discussing sport, household gadgets, the countryside, surrealism, Charlie Chaplin or religion, Lefebvre always concentrates on the minutiae of lived experience in work and leisure, daydreams, and festivities. Denounced by both the right and left when it was first published in France in 1947, today this text is recognized as a path-breaking, radical, and hugely influential book.
Author: John Valentine George Andrew Durnin
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTextbook on the physiology of human energy expenditure in the performance of intellectual and physical work and of leisure activities - covers aspects of nutrition, measurement of physical capacity, occupational health in industry and offices, energy utilisation in sports practised by individuals of different age groups, etc. Statistical tables. Bibliography pp. 141 to 157 and statistical tables.
Author: Sebastian De Grazia
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 548
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William A. Gleason
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780804734349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis literary and cultural history of the rise of modern leisure shows how American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston both responded to and helped shape19th- and early-20th-century ideas of work and play.
Author: Rosemary Deem
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-09
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 113498507X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRosemary Deem provides students with a concise introduction to a range of issues and debates surrounding work, unemployment and leisure in contemporary societies. Beginning with an examination of the social and historical factors which have shaped work and leisure patterns in modern Britain, she shows how the boundaries between them are culturally constructed and change over time. As well as looking at the effects of class, Work, Unemployment and Leisure also considers gender, race and ethnicity dimensions. The author takes a wide view of work, encompassing work carried out both within and outside the formal economy. The chapter on unemployment considers the lives of those who are unemployed, and the impact of unemployment on work and leisure. There is a critical analysis of leisure itself and some recent controversies are considered. The final chapter contains a discussion of the future of work and leisure in industrial societies.
