The future of leisure: making leisure work: a rejoinder.
W. Harper's linking of Samuel Smiles' ideas on self-help to the future of leisure was innovative and thought-provoking. The author is in general sympathy with Harper's view that leisure ought to be more integrated with work than it has been in the past. However, he has a number of reservations about what he writes in pursuit of this theme. These reservations may be discussed under five headings : what if we can make leisure work ? Self-help or mutual help ? Employment, not work, is the problem. What is the problem about simplification ? Don't blame technology, blame the sytem