Answer to Question #101885 in History for Nishika

Question

In Baird's article 'Popular Leisure and Industrialisation' which phenomenon does he feel had a greater impact on popular leisure- industrialization or urbanization?

Answer 1

Baird feels that industrialisation had great impact on popular laizure by reducing the time and space available for recreation as well as fundamentally altering popular amusements.Early industrialists often believed that leisure for their workforce was unnecessary and expensive and they therefore increased the time and regularity of work.