Overview
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.
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Author: Jonathan Gershuny (, Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Essex)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.448kg
ISBN: 9780199261895
ISBN 10: 019926189
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 27 February 2003
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book will be of interest to sociologists, economists, and demographers. For all those speculating upon whether Americans now have more time or less, this book is a revelation. -- The Journal <br> Gershuny, one of the leading researchers in the area of time-use research, provides an extremely useful and thought-provoking overview of his subject. Changing Times is a masterful review of what has been done in the area of time diary and questionnaire research regarding daily lives since the landmark cross-country project carried out in the 1960s by Alexander Szalai and collaborators. --Choice<br> For all those speculating upon whether Americans now have more time or less, this book is a revelation... A very interesting and enlightening look at our time and times. --American Journal of Sociology<br>
Review from previous edition The book ... is entirely accessible to the general reader and many of the key ideas are graphically illustrated. A.J.Veal, Annals of Leisure Research, Vol.3, 2000 Presents a theory of change instructive for debates surrounding subjects as diverse as work and family, consumption and production, globalization, leisure, social status, systems of provision, innovation studies and economic development ... it is the most comprehensive and accessibly written account of how people use time across European and North American countries. British Journal of Sociology A very interesting and enlightening look at our time and times. American Journal of Sociology
<br> This book will be of interest to sociologists, economists, and demographers. For all those speculating upon whether Americans now have more time or less, this book is a revelation. -- The Journal <br> Gershuny, one of the leading researchers in the area of time-use research, provides an extremely useful and thought-provoking overview of his subject. Changing Times is a masterful review of what has been done in the area of time diary and questionnaire research regarding daily lives since the landmark cross-country project carried out in the 1960s by Alexander Szalai and collaborators. --Choice<br> For all those speculating upon whether Americans now have more time or less, this book is a revelation... A very interesting and enlightening look at our time and times. --American Journal of Sociology<br>
Author Information
Jonathan Gershuny is Professor of Economic Sociology at Essex University. He is the Director of the university's Institute for Social and Economic Research, and responsible, among other longitudinal data-sets, for the British Household Panel Study. He was previously a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and the Head of the School of Social Sciences at Bath University.
