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Volume 6, Issue 5
1 May 1985
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Review Article| May 01 1985

Towards Grounded Definitions of Work and Leisure

David K. Banner;
David K. Banner
Department of Management, DePaul University, Chicago
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Alex Himelfarb
Alex Himelfarb
Research Sociologist, Government of Canada
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6577
Print ISSN: 0143-7720
© MCB UP Limited
1985
International Journal of Manpower (1985) 6 (5): 27–31.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045041

One of the most broadly based and prolific literatures in the social sciences has been in the work and/or leisure area. Since the 1930s, researchers and theorists, based mainly in Western Europe and North America, have generated impressive amounts of empirical research and theories about the relationships have appeared regularly from this literature:

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