Abstract
The aim of this article is to discuss leisure based on the concepts of work and free time. This discussion takes into account recent studies on the leisure issue in a perspective of an expressive increase in the worker’s free time due to worldwide unemployment. When dealing with the question of joblessness, Rifkin (1995) points to the scenario in which thousands of workers advocate more free time to be spent with their families and leisure even though it may reduce their income. This same author, however, foresees a crucial problem for future generations: with the decrease in job availability a greater number of unemployed people will become poverty-stricken with lesser chance to enjoy leisure. There a potentiality for leisure practice that not always comes true because its possibilities do not expand proportionately to the increase in free time. The leisure issue is also inserted in a context in which the appeal for consumption plays the leading role in contemporary world history. Therefore leisure itself has increasingly been regarded as a potential merchandise and thus submitted to the hard and cold market rules.
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