Workers at Play

<p>First published in 1986. This book explores developments in the cinema sport holidays gambling drinking and many more recreational activities and situates working-class leisure within the determining economic and social context. In particular the inventiveness of working people 'at play' is highlighted. </p> <p>Drawing on an extensive range of source material the book has a wide general appeal and will be useful to those professionally concerned with leisure as well as teachers and students of social history and all those interested in the patterns of working-class life in the past. </p>