Working at Leisure

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-08896-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

In Working at Leisure (originally published in 1986), Barrie Sherman envisages a world where homeworking will be the norm, the cities will be deserted, the suburbs the new centres of work and leisure. And what of unemployment? We must recognise that never again can we expect to be in full-time employment for the whole of our working lives. But, depending on the action we take now, this could lead us in one of two ways—to widespread unemployment and misery, or to a Brave New World where, for the first time in history, men and women will be able to find fulfilment by balancing their lives equally between work and leisure.

In this brilliant and perceptive analysis, Barrie Sherman stresses that we must allow ourselves the luxury of optimism when confronting the future. It is people who will determine what happens to us—not technology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sherman, Barrie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The working go-round 2. Not enough to go round 3. The new technologies 4. Conventional theories in unconventional times 5. The political dimension 6. Who does and who will do what 7. The changing faces of work 8. The need for change 9. Learning to live 10. Meeting people’s needs 11. ‘For the unemployed, leisure is a waste of time’ 12. The leisure revolution 13. Thinking the unthinkable 14. Political action – and inaction 15. Facing the future: the new industrial revolution 16. The hardest revolution of all

Über Autor(innen)

Barrie Sherman was a journalist, broadcaster and writer. He served as the Director of Research at the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. He was the co-author, with Clive Jenkins, of The Collapse of Work and The Leisure Shock.