Discretionary Time - A New Measure of Freedom (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Robert E. Goodin • James Mahmud Rice • Antti Parpo • Lina Eriksson
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	482
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-88298-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
LSN:	0-521-88298-2
Barcode:	9780521882989

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