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Leisure for Leisure [PDF ebook]
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A collection of critical essays which reject the assumptions that leisure relations are relations of freedom, self determination, life satisfaction and growth. The essays look at power and policy issues in leisure relations and attempt to produce a critical sociology of the subject.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9781349195275 ● Editor Chris Rojek ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Published 1988 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4974342 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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