This bookgenerates discussions that enable leisure scholars to learn and to engage with wider debates about the crucial role of leisure in people's lives.

Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans ha

There's an 80 percent chance you're poor. Time poor, that is. Four out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it.

Although it is now well established that unemployment is detrimental to health and well being, most of us assume that a well structured, rewarding leisure activ

In Work, Leisure and Well Being, John Haworth challenges the assumption that well-structured leisure activities are of greater benefit to health and well-being