Working at Leisure
eBook - ePub

Working at Leisure

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eBook - ePub

Working at Leisure

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040401170
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. 1 The working-go-round
  11. 2 Not enough to go round
  12. 3 The new technologies
  13. 4 Conventional theories in unconventional times
  14. 5 The political dimension
  15. 6 Who does and who will do what
  16. 7 The changing faces of work
  17. 8 The need for change
  18. 9 Learning to live
  19. 10 Meeting people’s needs
  20. 11 ‘For the unemployed, leisure is a waste of time’
  21. 12 The leisure revolution
  22. 13 Thinking the unthinkable
  23. 14 Political action – and inaction
  24. 15 Facing the future: the new industrial revolution
  25. 16 The hardest revolution of all
  26. Index