Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society by Jonathan Gershuny

Description: Changing Times by Jonathan Gershuny Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Gershuny uses 120,000 survey-diary accounts of daily life in twenty countries from the 1960s on to construct an account of how time-use patterns have changed in the developed world over the last third of a century and to relate these changes to economic development. Publisher Description Time allocation, whether considered at the level of the individual or of the society, is a major focus of public concern. Are our lives more congested with work than they used to be? Is society polarizing into groups which, on one side, have too much work and too little leisure time to spend their money in, and on the other have no paid work, and hence no money to pay for the goods and services they might wish to use during their leisure? Has the recent convergencein mens and womens labour market roles led to an unfair distribution of the totals of paid plus unpaid work? These issues, and others similar, once the preserve of a few specialist sociologists andeconomists, now appear daily and prominently across the news and entertainment media.Yet there is surprisingly little substantive evidence of how individuals and societies spend their time, and of how this has changed in the developed world over the recent past. This book brings together, for the first time, data gathered in some forty national scale time-diary studies, from twenty countries, and covering the last third of the twentieth century. It examines the newlyemerging political economy of time, in the light of new estimates of how time is actually spent, and of how this has changed, in the developed world. Author Biography Jonathan Gershuny is Professor of Economic Sociology at Essex University. He is the Director of the universitys Institute for Social and Economic Research, and responsible, among other longitudinal data-sets, for the British Household Panel Study. He was previously a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and the Head of the School of Social Sciences at Bath University. Details ISBN 019926189X ISBN-13 9780199261895 Title Changing Times Author Jonathan Gershuny Format Paperback Year 2003 Pages 312 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137009904; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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