Leisure, voluntary action and social change in Britain, 1880-1939 / Robert Snape.

Snape, Robert, author

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

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In the final decades of the 19th century, modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural commentators, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. Through major social critics, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure was theorized in terms of the good society. These writers remained influential in post-First World War social reconstruction as leisure became a field of social service directed towards the good society, notably in the new estate community-centre and the village hall movements and through numerous voluntary organizations. This volume documents the parallel cultural shift from charitable philanthropy to social service and from rational recreation to leisure.

9781350003019 (hbk)

306.4812094109034
800.792

English

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