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The article presents an abstract of a research paper on the working classes in Great Britain. The research paper was presented at the Anglo-American Colloquium held at Birkbeck College in London, England from June 22, 1968 to June 23, 1968. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the lives of the urban working classes were becoming even more rapidly transformed by economic change and the physical growth of large cities than ever before. To some extent, social reaction to these changes can be explored by an examination of social activities and institutions organized for the new leisure time of the workers. Essentially, attitudes to the best occupation of leisure time are conditioned by personal value-judgments, within a framework controlled by economic and environmental circumstances. This makes tracing the leisure activities of the workers a complex problem. On the one hand, personal value-judgments cut across class barriers. It is possible to see that one of the results of industrial and technical advance in the society has been the creation of a new order described as the mass society.