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A healthy work-life balance has become increasingly important to people trying to cope with the pressures of contemporary society. This trend highlights the fallacy of assessing well-being in terms of finance alone; how much time we have matters just as much as how much money. The authors of this book have developed a novel way to measure 'discretionary time': time which is free to spend as one pleases. Exploring data from the US, Australia, Germany, France, Sweden and Finland, they show that temporal autonomy varies substantially across different countries and under different living conditions. By calibrating how much control people have over their time, and how much they could have under alternative welfare, gender or household arrangements, this book offers a new perspective for comparative cross-national enquiries into the temporal aspects of human welfare.
• The first attempt to assess the impact of welfare states and gender regimes on people's daily lives • Analyses how much time people actually need to spend on things, and how much free time they have left • Systematically maps alternative ways of organizing households and assesses the impact different 'household rules' might have on the discretionary time of household members
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Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom
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July 31, 2019 | Edited by MARC Bot | associate edition with work OL19556697W |
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