Description: This book brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts in a wide range of disciplines concerned with work, leisure and well-being to discuss key, topical issues.
Review Quotes:
'As a result of reviewing this book, I as an educator of nearly four decades have been placed in a strategic position of appreciating how leisure copes and negotiates its way in a radically changing and unpredictable environment. Congratulations to editors John Haworth and Tony Veal for this excellent contribution to the fields of Work and Leisure.' - Francis Lobo, Edith Cowan University Australia, in World Leisure Journal Vol. 48, No. 1, 2006
'Here is a book that smashes discipline boundaries and addresses one of the 21st Century's really big issues. The economy is more productive than ever. Leisure and spending are still on the rise. So why are we no happier? This book supplies answers. The chapters, all by specialists in their field, review what is known about how our jobs and how we use the rest of our time affect our well-being, positively and negatively.' - Ken Roberts, Department of Sociology, University of Liverpool