WHERE HAS ALL THE LEISURE GONE?
The Industrialization of Lifestyle©
Copyright 1997 © Richard R.
Danielson and Karen F. Danielson
Foreward
This book was originally conceived in the mid 1980's and
written throughout the latter part of the 1980's and the early
part of the 1990's. In other words, it has taken a long time to
write! The version presented in this website is the most recent
one, but should still be considered a work in progress.
Our thoughts on this issue have been in formation since our
undergraduate days in the early 1960's, at which time we were
taught that by the turn of the century Canadians would be living
a life of leisure. This has obviously not happened. Rather the
opposite has happened: most people who work are working harder
than ever before, and those who do not have paid work (i.e. a
job), would give anything to have one. Leisure is something which
we all desire, yet we are having less and less success in
achieving it.
In addition to the historical issues, the cultural issues of
having spent a total of five years in Japan since 1969, have made
differences in what we have seen as being a "good" way
of life. Basically, we have come to question the direction toward
which industrialized nations are moving in the field of
lifestyle. Our book is an attempt to understand what is
happening, why it has come to be the way it is and how things
might be made better.
The book is organized in ten chapters and resides in ten
different files. Using either the table above (which points to
chapter headings), or the links below which point to sections
within each chapter) the reader can go directly to anywhere in
the book:
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Last revised: August 23, 2000.
copyright © 1997 by R.R. Danielson
Comments? Send email to: rdaniels@nickel.laurentian.ca
