Abstract
In a territory as yet so little explored as ‘leisure’ there can hardly be said to be ‘traditions’ of analysis and debate, terms and definitions. At the same time, any cursory glance at the burgeoning literature would show quite clearly some emerging points of consensus as well as some more questionable assumptions. One particularly healthy aspect of recent debate has been the attempts to root leisure theory in the context of wider social theory; to see leisure in relation to employment, commercialisation, privatisation, the family, developing social relations and so forth; (see for example Parker, 1976; Roberts, 1978; Dumazedier, 1978; Rojek, 1985). The less healthy side of this has been the concentration on seeking areas of leisure which reinforce already-held theoretical positions, for example on autonomy, professionalism or the dominance of consumption over production.
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Bishop, J., Hoggett, P. (1989). Leisure and the Informal Economy. In: Rojek, C. (eds) Leisure for Leisure. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19527-5_9
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