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Abstract

In 1977 a committee1 was set up to study the ways in which the government should act to encourage and channel the increasing amount of leisure in present-day French society. Their report stressed that the state should have a leisure policy, but it was cautious about the degree of control to be exercised and anxious that individual and group initiative should not be precluded. The committee therefore proposed that the state should focus its attention on improving economic efficiency, national solidarity, and individual freedom of choice in the provision of amenities and access to leisure activities, especially holidays, as befits a democratic society committed to promoting social justice.

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Hantrais, L. (1982). Leisure. In: Contemporary French Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86105-7_6

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