Leisure as a way of coping with stress: an ethnographic study of the low-income construction workers

摘要: This article tries to reveal the lived experiences of stress amongst site construction workers and their coping mechanism through leisure in a small company eastern India from state Jharkhand. Qualitative methods have been used collect data using ethnography photo-elicitation methods. Discussion with participants led emergence two themes: (1) work demand (2) as mechanism. The research findings indicate that physically demanding nature job coupled heavy load was major cause which development workers. Subsequently, they were found be adopting different activities for stress. Based on study findings, there is an imperative societal forerunners philanthropists continue use understand level prevailing various stress-copi...