The Archive · 1937

Leisure of the Working Classes

With so many people drawing. good pay, the question of how they Spend their leisure has become an anxious thought for a group of our persevering social uplifters. The National Institute of Industrial Psychology and the British Institute of Adult Education (they do go in for such long and confusing names nowadays) have agreed that a careful survey must be compiled of how the working classes spend their 'No doubt they will produce a very' Interesting book; out how far they will persuade the mob to reform its taster (one ambition is to get it to devote some of its leisure to the study of the meaning of citizenship: Task you) is quite another affair.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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