Investigating Leisure and Recreation
             Task 1- The development of the leisure and recreation industry since the 1960s.
             Since the 1960s the leisure and recreation industry has developed rapidly due to the many key factors that I'm going to talk about.
             Between 1945 and 1960, the period after the war, there was a static period of development in the leisure and recreation industry. There are various reasons for this static period. One of the main reasons was the war, because in the time after it people were not concentrating on taking part in leisure activities or having leisure time, their main focus was to rebuild their lives. Rebuilding their lives consisted of the rebuilding of bombed towns, cities etc. It also consisted of looking for jobs e.g. factory work, or setting up their own businesses, so that they could have some sort of source of income. Because these were the people's main focuses they did not have very much free leisure time. Employers had to make employees work long hours so that products could be finished so that they could go out on sale. Now days we have technology in our places of work that entitles work to be done much quicker and more efficiently e.g. mass production. Because of this technology less people have to be employed, because we have machines that can do their jobs, so employers can afford to pay their employees bigger portions of money. Back then employers paid their employees much smaller portions of money because there were so many of them and the employers couldn't afford to pay every employee a high wage. So once again people didn't really have any leisure time because of work, and no disposable income because of the small wages that they got which had to be spent on necessities. Also the absence of technology meant that people had to carry out time-consuming chores. Most of these reasons come under the category of "no leisure time" which people of today now have a lot...