Workers at Play

Workers at Play
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780429830907
ISBN-13 : 0429830904
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Book Synopsis Workers at Play by : Stephen G. Jones

Download or read book Workers at Play written by Stephen G. Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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