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Leisure and work / Stanley Parker. - London : Allen & Unwin, 1983. - xv, 157 p. ; 22 cm. + hbk. - Leisure and recreation studies ; 2 .

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Changing definitions and concepts -- Work and leisure in history and other societies -- What does work mean today? -- The social and individual functions of leisure -- Some studies of particular groups -- The unwaged: housewives, the unemployed and the retired -- The work-leisure relationship -- Towards a theory of work and leisure -- The microelectronics revolution? -- The potentialities of work and leisure -- Social policies in the 1980s and 1990s.

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