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Titre(s) : Discretionary time [Texte imprimé] : a new measure of freedom / Robert E. Goodin, James Mahmus Rice, Antti Parpo... [et al.]

Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Description matérielle : xix, 462 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Comprend : Time and money ; Discretionary time and temporal autonomy ; The distribution of discretionary time ; Time pressure : a new problem? ; Time pressure : a new measure ; Is it really an illusion? ; How welfare regimes differ ; A temporal perspective on welfare regimes ; Welfare regime and temporal autonomy ; How gender regimes differ ; A temporal perspective on gender regimes ; Gender regimes and temporal autonomy ; How household regimes differ ; The difference that household rules make ; The difference that states make ; Alternative household rules and temporal autonomy.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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."--BOOK JACKET

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