According to Ivar Berg's performance criteria, over half of the US workforce is now
underemployed. Using analysis based on US and Canadian surveys of work and learning …

Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this
book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment career. This career begins with an …

First published in 1999, this book is a contribution to the debate on tourism and Third World
development. The general goal of the study is to assess whether tourism is a viable …

The guest editors of this special issue on leisure and social capital review the seminal
perspectives of Pierre Bourdieu, James Coleman, and Robert Putnam on social capital. The …

This work looks into how, why, and when people pursue things in life that they desire, those
that make their existence attractive and worth living. Robert A. Stebbins calls this" Positive …

In economically advanced countries in recent years, working hours of many full-time
employees have been static or increasing and there has been talk of people suffering from a …

Despite leisure's central position within occupational therapy models of practice, theoretical
development from within occupational therapy remains limited. Historically occupational …

The idea of a 'leisure society'was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was
predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western …

The purpose of the study was to explore the extent to which participation in leisure activities
directed towards cooperation and effective communication affected the development of …

Sustainability is defined as the operation of a steady-state economy in which natural
resource inputs and waste-product outputs are held constant. Key issues in attaining …