ABSTRACT
“Every Englishman loves a lord.” The aristocracy is admired and envied; they are fully leisured and, moreover, are admired because they are fully leisured. Leisure and the social ideal became firmly equated and for many it was a natural identification. The forms of leisure for the rich have been altered by the introduction of the motor car, tennis, golf and easier foreign travel: the former predominance of shooting and hunting has gone. The problem of leisure is present in an acute form in the middle classes owing to the possession of time, energy and some cash after the work is done and after necessities have been met. If leisure is pushed into the centre of the lives of young people who have not yet developed, they adapt themselves mainly by lapsing into childishness. The social maladjustment of the unemployed is not subject to their being deprived of leisure but to their being deprived of work.
