ABSTRACT
Criticisms have been levelled at the leisure society idea from a wide variety of sources. While some criticisms arose in the 1960s and 1970s heyday of the leisure society idea, the more detailed critiques arose from the mid-1980s, particularly from neo-Marxist/critical scholars. Some criticism raised doubts about the fundamental empirical basis of the idea: that working hours were falling. Others arise from theoretical/critical principles which question the possibility of a benign future for capitalism.
