As ever Rojek′s spotlight on the world of leisure is so bright that it makes the rest of leisure studies fade to grey. He has also clearly developed a new talent for conceptual concision and clarity, as well as a capacity to express complex ideas in terms that even students can follow. This book should go down well with students and their tutors alike<br /><b>Tony Blackshaw<br />Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sheffield Hallam University</b>
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<p>We all wish to be free, and know that others keep telling us that we are; sometimes we indeed feel free. Seldom, though, do we pause and think what all that means. Like in the case of so many other experiences, we start thinking about their meanings only when something goes wrong; we run to lock the stable after the horse has bolted. Most of the time freedom remains to most of us a mystery. Chris Rojek, the most insistent, systematic and knowledgeable student of the ′condition of being free′, offers us a chance of repairing that. Having read The Labour of Leisure, we may learn what being free really means, how to practice the difficult art of freedom and what stops us from practicing it as we could<br /><b>Zygmunt Bauman<br />Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds</b></p>
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<p>Rojek provides a much needed correction in understanding what leisure is--and is not--in the 21st Century. A welcome provocation concerning modern life<br /><b>Geoffrey Godbey<br />Pennsylvania State University</b></p>
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