Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper presents fresh evidence on the impact of unemployment on young people's leisure. The evidence is from interview surveys during 1985 among 854 17–18 year olds in three parts of Britain—Chelmsford, Walsall and Liverpool. At the time of the interviews 8, 28 and 41 percent of the young people in these areas were unemployed. The results show that access to relatively well-paid jobs allows young males to adopt adult masculine roles vis-a-vis females. In contrast, high earned incomes tend to release girls from traditional feminine constraints. Unemployment and the associated lack of income were reducing males' and females' general levels of leisure participation. There were signs of adaptation among the longer-term unemployed, but in rather different ways by males and females. Long-term unemployment was making girls' lifestyles exceptionally home-based and, in this sense, traditionally feminine and adult. Longer-term unemployed boys were spending much more time out-of-home even though their l...
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