ABSTRACT
IN THIS CHAPTER we are to consider the social implications of earning and spending as they concern the people who live in the urban industrial society, in particular those who are city dwellers. We found in the previous chapter that leisure interests and activities tend to take people out of isolation. In many respects, leisure is a consumption preoccupation, but it relates to earning as well as to spending. Work is a production preoccupation, but it relates to spending as well as to earning. Both production and consumption are activities which link people together * in ever-widening circles. Whether the modern man is earning his money or spending it, he is engaged in activity which involves him in many ways with others, both with people he may know and with strangers who pass him on the street.
