Robert E. Goodin, James Mahmud Rice, Antti Parpo

Discretionary Time

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Produktbeschreibung

A novel study of how much control people have over their time and work-life balance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780521709514
• ISBN-10: 0521709512
• Artikelnr.: 23868645

Autorenporträt

Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social & Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Time and money
2. Discretionary time
3. The distribution of discretionary time
Part II. Time Pressure: 4. Time pressure: a new problem?
5. Time pressure: a new measure
6. Is it really an illusion?
Part III. Welfare Regimes Matter: 7. How welfare regimes differ
8. A temporal perspective on welfare regimes
9. Welfare regimes and temporal autonomy
Part IV. Gender Regimes Matter: 10. How gender regimes differ
11. A temporal perspective on gender regimes
12. Gender regimes and temporal autonomy
Part V. Household Regimes Matter: 13. How household regimes differ
14. The difference that household rules make
15. The difference that states make
16. Alternative household rules and temporal autonomy
Part VI. Conclusions: 17. Conclusions
Appendix 1. Methodology
Appendix 2. Data.