Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvRobert Snape

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In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as a sphere of social citizenship and community-building. Through major social thinkers, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure and voluntarism were theorized in terms of the good society. In post-First World War social reconstruction these writers remained influential as leisure became a field of social service, directed towards a new society and working through voluntary association in civic societies, settlements, new estate community-centres, village halls and church-based communities.This volume documents the parallel cultural shift from charitable philanthropy to social service and from rational recreation to leisure, teasing out intellectual influences which included social idealism, liberalism and socialism. Leisure, Robert Snape claims, has been a central and under-recognized organizing force in British communities. Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939 marks a much needed addition to the historiography of leisure and an antidote to the widely misunderstood implications of leisure to social policy today.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-04-05
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350003019

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Introduction 1.1 Historicizing Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change1.2 Leisure and Community1.3 Leisure, Voluntary Action and Civil Society1.4 Overview of Content2. Associational Leisure and the Formation of Community in the Mid- Nineteenth Century2.1 Introduction2.2 Industrialization, Urbanization and Community2.3 Leisure in Mutual Association 2.4 Temperance, Leisure and Community2.5 Working-Men’s Clubs 2.6 Conclusion3. Evangelicalism and the Inner Mission: Religion, Leisure and Social Service3.1 Religion, the Social Mission and Leisure3.2 Towards Social Service: John Brown Paton, Leisure and the Inner Mission 3.3 Conclusion4. Leisure, Community and the Settlement Movement4.1 Introduction4.2 The Barnetts and Toynbee Hall4.3 Oxford House and the Public School Mission4.4 The Liverpool University Settlement4.5 The Settlement Movement, Social Work and Leisure5. Utopian and Radical Leisure Communities5.1 Introduction5.2 The Clarion Movement5.3. The Co-operative Movement6. Leisure in Inter-War Britain7. Theorizations of Leisure and Voluntarism in post -First World War Social Reconstruction7.1 Introduction7.2 Leisure in the New Society7.3 New Leisure Makes New Men7.4 Leisure, Modernity and Social Change7.5 Conclusion8. Social Service, Reconstruction and Leisure8.1 Introduction8.2 The National Council of Social Service – Leisure and Community Well-Being8.3 Re-constructing the Rural Community: Leisure, Village Halls and Folk Dance8.4 The New Estates and Community Centres9. Young People, Youth Organizations and Leisure9.1 Introduction9.2 Leisure, Young People and Industrial Welfare in the First World War9.3 Educating the Young Citizen9.4 Cultural Rebels and Radical Leisure Association10. Leisure, Unemployment and Social Service10.1 Introduction10.2 Unemployment, Leisure and Social Capital 11. Work-Based Leisure Communities11.1 Work, Leisure and Community in Inter-War Britain11.2 The Workplace as a Social Community11.3 Model Industrial Villages and Leisure11.4 Leisure and Industrial Welfare in Inter-war Britain11.5 Co-operative and Collective Alternatives to Welfare11.6 ConclusionConclusionsSelect BibliographyIndex