Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- A Time and Place for Leisure -- Time and inclination -- The ability to pay -- The Industrialization of Popular Culture -- The working-class parish fair -- Conflicts and resolutions -- The segregation of festival culture -- Socialist festival culture -- Blueprint for the future -- The Lubricant of Leisure -- Workplace drinking -- Drink and the family -- Drink and the labour movement -- Cultural aid to social stimulant -- From the Street to the Stage -- The taming of popular entertainment -- Tingel-Tangels and music halls -- The dance craze -- Real entertainment -- The Organization of Leisure -- The beginnings of associational life -- An 'alternative' associational movement -- Club life -- Spontaneity to organization -- The Struggle for Control -- Useful pursuits -- Lungs of the city -- Social reform or social control? -- From Control to Commercialization -- The rise of the cinema -- Commercial culture versus working-class culture -- The triumph of commercial culture? -- Conclusions: a Working-Class Leisure Culture? -- Bibliography -- Index.