Workers at Play

First published in 1986. This book explores developments in the cinema, sport, holidays, gambling, drinking and many more recreational activities, and situates working-class leisure within the determining economic and social context. In particular, the inventiveness of working people ‘at play’ is highlighted. Drawing on an extensive range of source material, the book has a wide general appeal, and will be useful to those professionally concerned with leisure, as well as teachers and students of social history, and all those interested in the patterns of working-class life in the past

Aesthetics · Appeal · Art · Leisure activity · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Recreation · Social class · Sociology · Visual arts · Working class · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · 20th century · Great britain · Leisure · Leisure industry · Sports & Recreation