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(This book provides a lucid and exceptionally well-informed account of the controversial relationship between politics and leisure.
The author combines historical and sociological material to show the ways in which 'leisure has often been a fiercely disputed battleground. Free time and free space have always posed a threat to political authorities, while providing room for experimentation and expression for the citizenry. This has led to extensive attempts at leisure regulation; John Wilson examines the purposes and effectiveness of such regulation in the fields of games, sexuality, the mass media, and gambling. He is able to draw upon evidence of leisure planning and policy from a wide variety of political regimes, from communist and socialist through social democrat to liberal, conservative, and fascist.
The importance of the relationship between political forces and leisure, in subjects as disparate as the future of the Olympic games and the future of full employment, has rarely been so evident)
The author combines historical and sociological material to show the ways in which 'leisure has often been a fiercely disputed battleground. Free time and free space have always posed a threat to political authorities, while providing room for experimentation and expression for the citizenry. This has led to extensive attempts at leisure regulation; John Wilson examines the purposes and effectiveness of such regulation in the fields of games, sexuality, the mass media, and gambling. He is able to draw upon evidence of leisure planning and policy from a wide variety of political regimes, from communist and socialist through social democrat to liberal, conservative, and fascist.
The importance of the relationship between political forces and leisure, in subjects as disparate as the future of the Olympic games and the future of full employment, has rarely been so evident)
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0043012655
- ISBN 13 9780043012659
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages216
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Politics and Leisure (Leisure & recreation studies)
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Unwin Hyman, United Kingdom
(1988)
ISBN 10: 0043012655
ISBN 13: 9780043012659
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