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Book Review

Whatever happened to the leisure society?

by A. J. Veal, London, Routledge, 2019, xiv + 296 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-28964-2 (hbk), 978-1-315-26709-8 (ebk).

Ken RobertsUniversity of LiverpoolCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 81-83 | Published online: 15 Jan 2020

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