If so we can widen the opportunities for leisure. The new approach reverses this mental process. The business clerk usually gets two weeks' leave, with pay, each year. The U.S. Government clerk gets thirty days. The business man is likely to give himself two weeks or a month.
Farmers can get off for a week or more at a time by doubling up on one another's chores.
Housewives might do likewise. According to recent official figures the average industrial worker in the United States, during normal times, is employed about four fifths of the time - say 42 weeks in the year. The other ten weeks he is employed in seeking employment. The proportionate time for true leisure of the average adult American appears, then, to be meagre indeed. The industrial worker during the estimated ten weeks between jobs must of course go on eating and living.