Jiri Zuzanek

Gebundenes Buch

Time, Leisure and Well-Being

Beschreibung

The significance of work and leisure as elements of our social fabric have puzzled philosophers and social scientists for generations. This ambitious new study considers historical views of work and leisure alongside contemporary survey evidence about time-use and well-being.

Autor

Jiri Zuzanek is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and formerly held appointments in the University of Lund, Sweden, Queen's University, New York, and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He was also Research Director of UNESCO European Centre for Leisure and Education, Prague. He has researched and written extensively on the sociology of leisure and popular culture and time-use, time pressure, stress and health. He is author of: Social Research and Cultural Policy (1979); Work and Leisure in the Soviet Union (1980); World Leisure Participation (co-editor, 1996); The Effects of Time Use and Time Pressure on Child-Parent Relationships (2000); and Free Time and Leisure Participation: International Perspectives (co-editor, 2005).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781138666900
• ISBN-10: 1138666904
• Artikelnr.: 69944738