Decentring work
Subtitle: critical perspectives on leisure, social policy, and human development
By: editors: Heather Mair, Susan M. Arai, and Donald G. Reid
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781552385005
Subjects: Social policy; Leisure
Description: "Decentring Work questions how and why we have come to value paid employment as the marker of social success and individual self-worth and, more provocatively, investigates the role that leisure might play in its stead. The contributors probe the dimensions of marginalization and oppression experienced by groups such as women living in poverty, aboriginal youth, new immigrants, and older adults, and show how leisure can be a vital element in confronting issues in the social construction of homelessness, incarceration, dementia care, disability, and ethnicity."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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