![]() | Leisure in the Industrial Revolution: c. 1780-c. 1880 Subjects: Humanities; Class and Work; Agencies and Institutions; Crime and Punishment; Recreation and Consumption; States of Mind; Gender and Sexuality; History; Social Groups; National State; Local State; Education; Religious Denominations; The Legal System; Sport and Exercise ; Hobbies and Pastimes; Alcohol; Entertainment; Varieties of Religious Belief ; Attitudes to Nature; Gender Roles and Stereotypes; Holidays; Economic Developments; Working Conditions; Concepts of Society; British History; Modern History 1750-1945; Social & Cultural History; Magistracy; Sunday Schools; Church of England; Policing ; Pubs and Beerhouses; Fairs and Circusses; Theatre; Evangelicalism; Attitudes to Animals; Masculinity; Industrialisation; Working Classes; Middle Classes; Wages; First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular leisure in the early Industrial Revolution; that with industrialisation there was sharp discontinuity with the past; that cultural forms diffuse themselves only down the social scale, and that leisure helped ease class distinctions. An alternative interpretation is suggested in which popular culture can be seen as an active agent as well as a victim. This title will be of interest to students of history. Hugh Cunningham |
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