| The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression Subjects: Leisure -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Depressions -- 1929 -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933–1945; Explores how and why leisure became an object of such intense interest, concern, and surveillance during the Great Depression. Susan Currell is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Sussex. |