Industrial Revolution

99-100). Lafargue considers, of this form, a paradoxical inversion of the bourgeois and laboring values, considering the work a devilish vice and laziness the mother of the virtues. Thus, it intencionava to stimulate the reduction of the work time so that the laborers started to practise ‘ ‘ the virtues of preguia’ ‘ (good table, good house, good clothes, parties, dances, music, sex, occupation with the children, leisure and rest) and time to think and to enjoy of the culture and artes’ ‘ (CHAU, 1999, P. 44-5).

It is in this period of the Industrial Revolution, also, that the term leisure more passes to be used, also in substitution to the cio. ‘ ‘ The connotation of this vocbulo is come close to the license idea, good with of parcels of free time legally obtidas’ ‘ (BACAL, 2003, P. 69). Bacal affirms exactly that the preponderant factor in the reduction of the hours of working was the progress technician, who allowed that, with the reduction of the working hours if it considerably increased the volume of the industrial production. Dumazedier (2000) also affirms that the instauration of the day of eight hours, at the beginning of century XX, provoked hope and also the inquietude of the social reformadores how much to the organization of the times of lazeres, considering an interesting questioning: ‘ ‘ the set free time would be used for the bloom or the degradation of the personality? ‘ ‘ (P. 21). Beyond controlling the body and the mind of the workers by means of the organization of the work in ‘ ‘ systems of fbricas’ ‘ , the bourgeois society also controlled ‘ ‘ the proletarian conquests on the time of rest, or the call ‘ ‘ time livre’ ‘. The cultural industry, the industry of the fashion and the tourism, the industry of the sport and the leisure is structuralized in compliance with the requirements of the capitalist market, that was molded to the costs of the exploration of the work of the work force, that did not obtain to have right to laziness demanded for Lafargue.