Changing Times
Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 October 2000
- ISBN 9780198287872
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 241x162x23 mm
- Weight 601 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line figures 100
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Short description:
Is there a 'speed-up' of daily life? Have the best-off members of developed societies lost their leisure? Have women won their jobs but kept their housework? Changing Times seeks to answer these and similar questions, putting together, for the first time, evidence of changing time-use patterns drawn from forty large-scale surveys, from twenty countries in Western Europe, North America, and Australia, covering the last third of the twentieth century.
MoreLong description:
Time allocation, whether considered at the level of the individual or of the society, is a major focus of public concern. Are our lives more congested with work than they used to be? Is society polarizing into groups which, on one side, have too much work and too little leisure time to spend their money in, and on the other have no paid work, and hence no money to pay for the goods and services they might wish to use during their leisure? Has the recent convergence in men's and women's labour market roles led to an unfair distribution of the totals of paid plus unpaid work? These issues, and others similar, once the preserve of a few specialist sociologists and economists, now appear daily and prominently across the news and entertainment media.
Yet there is surprisingly little substantive evidence of how individuals and societies spend their time, and of how this has changed in the developed world over the recent past. This book brings together, for the first time, data gathered in some forty national scale 'time-diary' studies, from twenty countries, and covering the last third of the twentieth century. It examines the newly emerging political economy of time, in the light of new estimates of how time is actually spent, and of how this has changed, in the developed world.
Provides one of the most valuable international and longitudinal analyses of time use patterns since Szalai's seminal study of 1972.
Table of Contents:
An Introduction, and a First Summary
Work and Leisure: Historical Change in the Conditions of Life
Are We Running out of Time?
The Individual's and the Society's Day: Micro and Macro Theories of Time Use
The History and Future of Time Use: Empirical Evidence
Explaining Time Use
A Concise Atlas of Time Use: 20 Countries, 33 Years' Change
Time-Use Models of Economic Development
Humane Modernization
Appendix 1. Telling the Time: Some Reflections on Time-Diary Methodology
Appendix 2. A Multinational Longitudinal Time-Use Data Archive
