The 'harried leisure class' revisited: Dutch and canadian trends in the use of time from the 1970s to the 1990s

Leisure Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-19

  Zuzanek, Jiri ^a   Beckers, Theo ^b   Peters, Pascale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEISURE TIME; LIFE CYCLE; SOCIAL TRENDS; TIME ALLOCATION;

CANADA; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0031798876     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026143698375222     Document Type: Article

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