Social Conceptions of Time Structure and

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.

Graham Crow is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, and Sue Heath is Lecturer in Sociology, both at the University of Southampton.

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

x

Acknowledgements

xii

Notes on Contributors

xiv

Introduction

1

(8)

Graham Crow

Sue Heath

I The Political Economy of Time

9

(58)

Time, Complexity and the Global

11

(13)

John Urry

Introduction

11

(1)

Times

12

(2)

The global paradigm

14

(2)

Global hybrids

16

(5)

Conclusion

21

(2)

Acknowledgements

23

(1)

Service Regimes and the Political Economy of Time

24

(14)

Jonathan Gershuny

Introduction

24

(1)

Historical change in time use

25

(5)

The political economy at time

30

(2)

High and low value services, production and consumption

32

(1)

Alternative service economies

33

(3)

Conclusion

36

(2)

Politicizing Time: Temporal Issues for Second-Wave Feminists

38

(15)

Mary Holmes

Introduction: if only we had time

38

(3)

Women have no time

41

(2)

Making time to act

43

(3)

Challenging time

46

(4)

Time enough

50

(2)

Notes

52

(1)

Time and Speed in the Social Universe of Capital

53

(14)

Michael Neary

Glen Rikowski

Introduction

53

(3)

The speed of life

56

(3)

The social universe of capital: M--C--M' meets E = mc2

59

(5)

A theory of social time

64

(3)

II Work Time

67

(96)

How Many Hours? Work-Time Regimes and Preferences in European Countries

69

(19)

Colette Fagan

Introduction

69

(1)

Working-time trends and pressures in contemporary societies

69

(3)

Who works the longest hours?

72

(5)

How many hours would men and women prefer to work?

77

(9)

Conclusion

86

(1)

Notes

87

(1)

Gendered and Classed Working Time in Britain: Dual-Employee Couples in Higher/Lower-Level Occupations

88

(21)

Tracey Warren

Introduction

88

(1)

Data

89

(2)

Gendered and classed working time

91

(1)

Dual breadwinners

92

(1)

Male breadwinners

93

(4)

Dual breadwinners

97

(1)

Female breadwinners

98

(1)

Dual carers

98

(9)

Conclusion

107

(2)

Employment Patterns for the Future: Balancing Work and Family Life in Two Local Authorities

109

(17)

Mark Smith

Marilyn Carroll

Introduction

109

(2)

The case study organizations and the survey

111

(1)

Polarization in coping with care responsibilities

112

(6)

Diverging preferences

118

(6)

Conclusion

124

(1)

Acknowledgements

125

(1)

Making Time for Management: the Careers and Lives of Manager-Academics in UK Universities

126

(18)

Rosemary Deem

Sam Hillyard

Introduction

126

(1)

Time and the workof manager-academics

127

(1)

Time and manager-academic careers

128

(4)

Finding time for management

132

(5)

Work time and home time

137

(4)

Conclusion

141

(1)

Acknowledgements

142

(1)

Notes

142

(2)

`Big Brother is Watching You!' Call Centre Surveillance and the Time-Disciplined Subject

144

(19)

David Knights

Pamela Odih

Introduction

144

(2)

Time discipline at work

146

(1)

The ethnography at the BNFS call centre

147

(1)

Analytic themes, data and discussion

148

(1)

Process time and `emotional labour'

149

(3)

Task and process tensions

152

(2)

Temporal clashes, resistance and attrition

154

(2)

Discussion

156

(3)

Summary and conclusion

159

(4)

III Time in Everyday Life

163

(84)

Are Long or Unsocial Hours of Work Bad for Leisure?

165

(14)

Ken Roberts

Working time -- once again an issues?

165

(1)

Redistributing work

166

(1)

The quality of life

166

(1)

Methods

167

(2)

Age, class and gender

169

(1)

Income

170

(2)

Length of working time

172

(2)

Odd hours

174

(1)

Time and money

174

(1)

Discussion

175

(3)

Acknowledgements

178

(1)

Routine Matters: Narratives of Everyday Life in Families

179

(16)

Elizabeth Silva

Introduction

179

(1)

Mainstreem sociology and contemporary everyday routines

180

(2)

Narratives of routines: the study

182

(3)

Gender and routines

185

(8)

Conclusion

193

(1)

Note

194

(1)

Roles, Rhythms and Routines: Towards a New Script of Daily Life in the Netherlands?

195

(20)

Andries van den Broek

Koen Breedveld

Wim Knulst

Introduction

195

(1)

Context

195

(2)

Changing roles

197

(5)

Eroding rhythms

202

(1)

The dispersion of tasks

203

(3)

Weekly and daily rhythms

206

(3)

Fewer routines

209

(3)

Conclusion and discussion

212

(3)

Time for Life: Time for Being and Becoming

215

(15)

Davina Chaplin

Introduction

215

(1)

Horizons

216

(2)

Tempo

218

(3)

Stress and de-stressing

221

(1)

Resisting clock time

222

(1)

Spontaniety and synchronicity

223

(2)

Routines and repetitions

225

(2)

Time `out' or ontological time

227

(3)

Collecting Time: the Social Organization of Collecting

230

(17)

Jackie Goode

Introduction: the collecting phenomenon

230

(1)

Why now?

231

(3)

Methodology

234

(3)

Revisiting the past

237

(3)

Organizing the present

240

(2)

Maintaining a stake in the future

242

(3)

Conclusions

245

(2)

Bibliography

247

(17)

Index

264

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