Discretionary Time - A New Measure of Freedom

Informationen zum Autor Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social & Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. Klappentext A novel study of how much control people have over their time and work-life balance. Zusammenfassung The authors develop a novel way of measuring 'discretionary time': time which is free to spend as one pleases. Using data from six different countries! they examine how much control people have over their time and how much they could have under alternative welfare! gender or household arrangements. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Lina Eriksson, Lina (Australian National University Eriksson, Robert E. Goodin, Robert E. (Australian National University Goodin, Robert E. Rice Goodin, Antti Parpo, James Mahmud Rice, James Mahmud (Australian National University Rice
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521709514
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70951-4
• No. of pages: 484
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education