Leisure can be defined as a condition in which one finds oneself when engaged in activities that one has chosen to perform in the absence of compulsion, for one's own pleasure, and, most often, but not necessarily, perceived as distinct from what is commonly regarded as its opposite, i.e., work, daily commitments, etc. As much as it is a dimension of daily life that is sometimes less clearly distinguishable from work commitments - the tendency for mixing and indistinction between the two dimensions is a figure of the way in which work is organized in contemporary society - it is clear that free time is also a time that constitutes a resource and, like all other resources, continues to be unequally distributed. To understand the evolution of leisure as a dimension of daily life and the meanings it has taken on since industrialization we will use four different meanings.
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Chapter Title
Libero, liberato, liberatorio liberticida. I mutamenti del leisure time tra modernità e postmodernità
Authors
Fabio Massimo Lo Verde
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.133
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919