Leisure and Consumption
Leisure and consumption have always been intimately linked, in the same way as work and production are. During the industrial Protestant era, consumption and leisure were seen as indulgent, decadent, feminine pursuits not worthy of serious intellectual analysis. One reason for this was that production, commerce, and industry were embodied in the concept of work, emphasized by the dominant culture of the time as central to the development of good character. Consumption, however, was seen as an inconsequential activity engaged in during one's leisure time. 
 
 
Keywords: 
 
commodity; 
leisure and recreation; 
sociology of leisure and tourism
Leisure and Consumption
Forms and practices of leisure exist in dynamic and uneasy tension with the interests and demands of commerce. Conceptually, leisure and consumption appear to be at odds with one another; practically, in everyday life, they are difficult to disentangle. The steady rise to prominence of a culture of consumption over the course of the twentieth century has been accompanied by the presence of markets and the dominance of a market logic in virtually every corner of social life in the twenty-first (Cross, 2000; Slater, 1997). Leisure, often conceptualized by theorists and practitioners as an escape from the vicissitudes of productive life, can itself hardly escape the pull of capital. New forms of leisure, in fact, are dependent upon media and market forces to garner audiences and procure adherents.
The commodification of leisure: The case of the model airplane hobby and industry
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of capitalist production on a leisure activity. It demonstrates that as commodities produced for exchange become the predominant objects used in a leisure activity, the leisure activity itself is reshaped. A case study of the model airplane hobby and industry illuminates this process. The history of the hobby is one of gradual control loss by hobbyists and control gain by capital.