Moreover, the government provided mass leisure activities, such as sports, concerts, and seaside holidays, which were genuinely popular.
In 1906, at the dawn of the era of mass leisure, TB Potter saw the four-mile long spit off the coast of Tillamook and decided that he could make it into "the Atlantic City of the west".
Yet the logic is not obscure: The new destinations are precisely the places, like Archer County, that have been undervalued — whether by industry or agriculture or mass leisure or urban flight.
As the bicycle changes from being a plaything of the rich to a mass leisure item, its past and future role as a means of green and cheap transportation is a key theme that gives this well-written and enjoyable book a polemical edge.
Mass leisure will also create other kinds of jobs, such as those devoted to entertaining and informing each other.
In many ways, the golden age of bingo marked the dawning of mass leisure and the night-time economy.
They calculated that after controlling for age, gender, race/ethnicity, income, education, self- and physician-rated health status, body mass index, leisure exercise, smoking, and regular alcohol use, the uninsured were more likely to die (hazard ratio=1.40; 95% CI=1.06, 1.84) than those with insurance (Table 2).
The following covariates were included in the analyses: Age, gender, family status, smoking, alcohol, body mass index, leisure time physical activity, social class, somatic chronic illness, self-rated health and method of data collection.
'*'The adjusted analyses include the covariates: sex, age, family status, smoking, alcohol, body mass index, leisure time physical activity, social class, somatic chronic illness, self-rated health and data collection method.
Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were adjusted for age, gender, hypnotic use, body mass index, leisure-time physical activity and consumption of milk and milk products that were not used as independent variables.
Relative risks (hazard ratios) and their 95% CIs were adjusted for sex, race/ethnicity, education attainment, diabetes duration, body mass index, leisure-time physical activity, smoking status, alcohol consumption, systolic blood pressure, serum HDL-C concentration, glomerular filtration rate, C-reactive protein, and self-reported use of prescribed medicine to lower blood cholesterol.
