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This book is concerned with the significance of time in work and everyday life. The contributors are among the foremost authorities in the field, and their up-to-date contributions consider the changing social meanings that time has in work, leisure and everyday routines. Together they provide a combination of theoretical and empirically-based approaches that reveal the social significance of time in all aspects of everyday lives.
List of contents
List of Tables List of Figures Introduction: G.Crow & S.Heath PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TIME Time, Complexity and the Global; J.Urry Service Regimes and the Political Economy of Time; J.Gershuny Politicizing Time: Temporal Issues for Second Wave Feminists; M.Holmes Time and Speed in the Social Universe of Capital; M.Neary & G.Rikowski PART II: WORK TIME How Many Hours? Work Time Regimes and Preferences in European Countries; C.Fagan Gendered and Classed Working Time in Britain: Dual-employee Couples in Higher/Lower Level Occupations; T.Warren Employment Patterns for the Future: Balancing Work and Family Life in Two Local Authorities; M.Smith & M.Carroll Making Time for Management: The Careers and Lives of Manager-Academics in UK Universities; R.Deem & S.Hillyard 'Big Brother is Watching You!'; Call Centre Surveillance and the Time Disciplines Subject; D.Knights & P.Odih PART III: TIME IN EVERYDAY LIFE Are Long or Unsocial Hours of Work Bad for Leisure?; K.Roberts Routine Matters: Narratives of Everyday Life in Families; E.B.Silva Roles, Rhythms and Routines: Towards a New Script of Daily Life in the Netherlands; A.van den Broek, K.Breedveld & W.Knulst Time for Life: Time for Being and Becoming; D.Chaplin Collecting Time: The Social Organization of Collecting; J.Goode Bibliography Index
About the author
KOEN BREEDVELD Research Fellow, Social and Cultural Planning Office, The Netherlands
MARILYN CARROLL Research Associate, European Work and Employment Research Centre, Manchester School of Management
DAVINA CHAPLIN previously Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire
ROSEMARY DEEM Professor of Education, University of Bristol
COLETTE FAGAN Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester
JONATHAN GERSHUNY Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
JACKIE GOODE Researcher, Management Centre, King's College London
SAM HILLYARD Lecturer in Sociology, University of Nottingham
MARY HOLMES Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen
DAVID KNIGHTS Professor of Organizational Analysis, Head of the School of Management, Keele University
WIM KNULST Professor, Leisure Studies Department, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
MICHAEL NEARY Lecturer in Sociology, University of Warwick
PAMELA ODIH Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
GLENN RIKOWSKI Lecturer, University College, Northampton
KEN ROBERTS Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool
ELIZABETH BORTOLAIA SILVA Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, and Research Director, National Everyday Cultures Programme, Open University
MARK SMITH Lecturer in Employment Studies, Manchester School of Management
JOHN URRY Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University
ANDRIES VAN DEN BROEK Research Unit, Social and Cultural Planning Office, The Netherlands
TRACEY WARREN Lecturer in Sociology, University of Nottingham
Summary
This book is concerned with the significance of time in work and everyday life. The contributors are among the foremost authorities in the field, and their up-to-date contributions consider the changing social meanings that time has in work, leisure and everyday routines. Together they provide a combination of theoretical and empirically-based approaches that reveal the social significance of time in all aspects of everyday lives.
