Readership: Sociologists and economists interested in the way that people use their time and the effect that this has on consumption patterns and economic relations.
Jonathan Gershuny, Director, ISER, University of Essex
"Provides one of the most valuable international and longitudinal analyses of time use patterns since Szalai's seminal study of 1972." - European Sociological Review
"The most comprehensive and accessibly written account of how people use time across European and North American countries ... this book must be read by anyone with specialized interest in time use and socio-economic organization. The book has a wide application. It is well crafted, tackling difficult and contentious, yet crucial, debates in contemporary society with clarity and precision. Regardless of whether you agree with its prognosis, analysis and theoretical reasoning, this is a thought provoking critique of socio-economic and temporal organization." - British Journal of Sociology
"The book will be valued particularly for its careful explanations of how time budget data can be analysed so as to make comparisons between countries and reveal trends over time." - Sociology
"The book is entirely accessible to the general reader and many of the key ideas are graphically illustrated." - Annals of Leisure Research
1: An Introduction, and a First Summary 2: Work and Leisure: Historical Change in the Conditions of Life 3: Are We Running out of Time? 4: The Individual's and the Society's Day: Micro and Macro Theories of Time Use 5: The History and Future of Time Use: Empirical Evidence 6: Explaining Time Use 7: A Concise Atlas of Time Use: 20 Countries, 33 Years' Change 8: Time-Use Models of Economic Development 9: Humane Modernization Appendix 1. Telling the Time: Some Reflections on Time-Diary Methodology S. Jones, Patrick Baert, K. Fisher, and J. Gershuny: Appendix 2. A Multinational Longitudinal Time-Use Data Archive
