Write a 2000-word essay in response to the following prompt:
Select one domain of leisure covered in the scheduled reading for weeks 9 and 10 and apply the critiques of contemporary work culture outlined in the readings for week 7 and 8 to that domain, thereby offering a critical evaluation. In addition to the prescribed readings, you should draw from two further peer-reviewed articles that are relevant to your chosen topic. Be sure to provide multiple direct quotes from each textual source in support of your argument.
Grading criteria: This paper will be graded on the following: a) accurate analysis of the relevant class texts from weeks 7-10 (15pts); b) ability to differentiate positions and to set out competing evidence for them in a balanced manner (10pts); c) making connections beyond points explicitly made by the texts studied (5pts).
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Week 7: A contemporary Marxian analysis of capitalist labor
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, pp. 39-63.
Harvey, Seventeenth Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, pp. 199-215.
Week 8: A sociological analysis of capitalist labor
Richard Sennett, The Culture of the New Capitalism, pp. 179-197.
Sennett, The Craftsman, pp. 28-52.
Week 9: Politics of leisure 1
Class and culture, Routledge Handbook of Leisure, pp. 193-215
Racism and sport, Routledge Handbook of Leisure, pp. 216-29
Week 10: Domains of leisure 2
Family and gender, Routledge Handbook of Leisure, pp. 230-256
National identity and public policy, Routledge Handbook of Leisure, pp. 422-442
